Diderot's Essais sur la peinture was described by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, as " a magnificent work, which speaks even more helpfully to the poet than to the painter, though to the painter too it is as a blazing torch.

Diderot's miscellaneous pieces range from a graceful trifle like the Regrets sur ma vieille robe de chambre ( Regrets for my Old Dressing Gown ) up to Le rêve de D ' Alembert, where he plunges into the depths of the controversy as to the ultimate constitution of matter and the meaning of life.

This name for the phenomenon comes from French encyclopedist and philosopher Denis Diderot's description of such a situation in his Paradoxe sur le comédien.

He wrote several articles for Diderot's Encyclopédie, published an essay on " Luxury " in 1764, brought out an edition of The Seasons with a selection of his other poetry and some short stories in 1769, and completed a multi-volume philosophical work in 1797-98, called Principe des mœurs chez toutes les nations ou Catéchisme universel ( Principle of morals among all nations, or universal catechism ).

As a result, Rameau became a character in Diderot's then-unpublished dialogue, Le neveu de Rameau ( Rameau's Nephew ).

His other works include bibliographies of Prosper Mérimée ( 1876 ), of Théophile Gautier ( 1876 ), of the brothers de Goncourt ( 1897 ) and others ; also editions of FM Grimm's, of Diderot's Neveu de Rameau ( 1884 ), of Montesquieu's Lettres persanes ( Persian Letters, 1886 ), etc.

Friedemann himself may have been one of the models for Diderot's philosophical dialogue Rameau's Nephew ( Le Neveu de Rameau ).

Denis Diderot's book Supplément au voyage de Bougainville retells the story of Bougainville's landing on Tahiti, narrated by an anonymous reader to one of his friends ; this fictional approach to Bougainville's expedition, along with Diderot's description of the Tahitians as noble savages, was meant to criticise Western ways of living and thinking.

Janin travelled ( picking up in one of his journeys a country house at Lucca in a lottery ), and wrote accounts of his travels ; he wrote numerous tales and novels, and composed many other works, including Fin d ' un monde et du neveu de Rameau ( 1861 ), in which, under the guise of a sequel to Diderot's work, he showed his familiarity with the late 18th century.

* Louis de Jaucourt, French physicist and writer, a major contributor to Diderot's Encyclopédie

This distinction between empirical and rational psychology was picked up in Denis Diderot's ( 1713 – 1780 ) Encyclopédie ( 1751 – 1784 ) and was popularized in France by Maine de Biran ( 1766 – 1824 ).

Her first piece, The Chapter of Accidents, a three-act opera based on Denis Diderot's Le père de famille, was produced by George Colman the Elder at the Haymarket Theatre on 5 August 1780 and was an immediate success.

From Diderot's Le rêve de D ' Alembert.

The caption echoes that of Denis Diderot's story Ceci n ' est pas un conte (" This is not a story ").

With a new translation of Diderot's Letter on the Blind ( Continuum, 2011 )

With a new translation of Diderot's Letter on the Blind ( Continuum, 2011 )

Diderot's intention in writing the dialogue is disputed ; whether it is merely a satire on contemporary manners, or a reduction of the theory of self-interest to an absurdity, or the application of irony to the ethics of ordinary convention, or a mere setting for a discussion about music, or a vigorous dramatic sketch of a parasite and a human original.

It developed some of the ideas mentioned in an earlier work, the article Economie Politique ( Discourse on Political Economy ), featured in Diderot's Encyclopédie.

* Diderot's historic writing on Melancholy

Instead of taking on the classical criticism of art that involved knowledge of color, composition and line, Gautier was strongly influenced by Denis Diderot's idea that the critic should have the ability to describe the art so as the reader can " see " the art through his description.

Regardless, however, of the extent of Diderot's contribution to the System of Nature, it is on the basis of this work that d ' Holbach's philosophy has been called " the culmination of French materialism and atheism.

Monk's tale was clearly modeled on the gothic novels that were popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries, a literary genre that had already been used to stoke anti-Catholic sentiments in such works as Matthew Lewis's The Monk and Denis Diderot's La Religieuse.

In his Discourse on Political Economy, Rousseau explicitly credits Diderot's Encyclopédie article " Droit Naturel " as the source of " the luminous concept " of the general will, of which he maintains his own thoughts are simply a development.

According to Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie, the style of Royal Highness was created on the insistence of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, Cardinal-Infante of Spain, a younger son of King Philip III of Spain.

Ambert is famous for its fourme-d ' Ambert cheese, its paper mills ( the first edition of Diderot's Encyclopédie was printed on paper made in Ambert ) and its circular town hall ( popularized by Jules Romain in his novel Les copains ).

Drawing on Diderot's criticism, Fried argues that whenever a self-consciousness of viewing exists, absorption is compromised, and theatricality results.

It was also in 1751 that Sir Joseph issued a prospectus inviting subscribers for a translation of Diderot's and D ' Alembert's Encyclopédie, with additional or expanded articles on subjects of English interest.

Diderot's earliest works included a translation of Temple Stanyan's History of Greece ( 1743 ); with two colleagues, François-Vincent Toussaint and Marc-Antoine Eidous, he produced a translation of Robert James's Medicinal Dictionary ( 1746 – 1748 ); at about the same time he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit ( 1745 ), with some original notes of his own.

Their popularity inspired Diderot's Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville ( 1772 ), a scathing critique of European sexual hypocrisy and colonial exploitation.

These tongue-in-cheek pastiches include Anthony Hamilton's Les quatre Facardins ( 1730 ), Crébillon's Le sopha ( 1742 ) and Diderot's Les bijoux indiscrets ( 1748 ).

Thus, Denis Diderot's short story, " The Two Friends from Bourbonne " ( 1770 ), begins " There used to be two men here who might be called the Damon and Pythias of Bourbonne.

For Diderot's Encyclopédie he wrote several entries, among them " Electricité ", " Magnétisme ", " Aimant " ( Magnet ), and " Aiguille aimantée " ( Compass needle ).

Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et critique ( 1695 – 1697 ; enlarged 1702 ), with its multiplicity of marginalia and interpretations, offered a uniquely discursive and multifaceted view of knowledge ( distinctly at odds with French classicism ); it would be a major inspiration for the Enlightenment and Diderot's Encyclopédie.

Diderot's great Encyclopédie reshaped the European world view.

Her name was Angélique, after both Diderot's dead mother and sister.

The death of his sister, a nun, from overwork in the convent may have affected Diderot's opinion of religion.

Diderot's travel from Paris to Saint Petersburg in 1773-1774.

Jean le Rond d ' Alembert was persuaded to become Diderot's colleague ; the requisite permission was procured from the government.

However, Diderot's work was plagued by controversy from the beginning ; the project was suspended by the courts in 1752.

At the last moment, when his immense work was drawing to an end, he encountered a crowning mortification: he discovered that the bookseller, fearing the government's displeasure, had struck out from the proof sheets, after they had left Diderot's hands, all passages that he considered too dangerous.

Although the Encyclopédie was Diderot's monumental piece, he was the author of many other works that sowed nearly every field of intellectual interest with new and creative ideas.

Diderot's most intimate friend was the philologist Friedrich Melchior Grimm.

" Jean-Baptiste Greuze was Diderot's favorite contemporary artist.

Diderot's interest expressed itself in didactic and sympathetic form.

A favorite classical author of Diderot's, Horace's words Vertumnis, quotquot sunt, natus iniquis are quoted at the top of the Nephew.

Realizing the inherent problems with the model of knowledge he had created, Diderot's view of his own success in writing the Encyclopédie were far from ecstatic.

Foreign printed sources such as the Descriptions des Arts et Métiers and Diderot's Encyclopédie explained foreign methods with fine engraved plates.

The publication of Denis Diderot's and Jean d ' Alembert's Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers marked the crowning intellectual achievement of the epoch.

It was during this period that Gorky, along with Lunacharsky, Bogdanov and Vladimir Bazarov developed the idea of an Encyclopedia of Russian History as a socialist version of Diderot's Encyclopedia.

Jacques, the title character of Denis Diderot's " Jacques the Fatalist ", is said to have been severely wounded in the knee while serving in the French Army at the Battle of Fontenoy.