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- ISBN
- 9780674737907
- Book Title
- Catherine and Diderot : the Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, History
- Topic
- Philosophers, Modern / 18th Century, Royalty, European / French, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Europe / France
- Item Weight
- 15.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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A dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it with great aplomb. In October 1773, after a grueling trek from Paris, the aged and ailing Denis Diderot stumbled from a carriage in wintery St. Petersburg. The century's most subversive thinker, Diderot arrived as the guest of its most ambitious and admired ruler, Empress Catherine of Russia. What followed was unprecedented: more than forty private meetings, stretching over nearly four months, between these two extraordinary figures. Diderot had come from Paris in order to guide--or so he thought--the woman who had become the continent's last great hope for an enlightened ruler. But as it soon became clear, Catherine had a very different understanding not just of her role but of his as well. Philosophers, she claimed, had the luxury of writing on unfeeling paper. Rulers had the task of writing on human skin, sensitive to the slightest touch. Diderot and Catherine's series of meetings, held in her private chambers at the Hermitage, captured the imagination of their contemporaries. While heads of state like Frederick of Prussia feared the consequences of these conversations, intellectuals like Voltaire hoped they would further the goals of the Enlightenment. In Catherine & Diderot , Robert Zaretsky traces the lives of these two remarkable figures, inviting us to reflect on the fraught relationship between politics and philosophy, and between a man of thought and a woman of action.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674737903
ISBN-13
9780674737907
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038816048
Product Key Features
Book Title
Catherine and Diderot : the Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Philosophers, Modern / 18th Century, Royalty, European / French, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Europe / France
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
15.7 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
One of the glories of Robert Zaretsky's beautifully organized and very readable book--in itself a meditation on those Enlightenment values of knowledge and happiness that are so beleaguered in our own day--is the way it opens up Diderot's self-doubt on his return from a country whose dependence on brute power to maintain domestic order made French philosophizing look naive...This book is splendid., Particularly good...in its advocacy of Diderot as a thinker and imaginative writer...As Zaretsky demonstrates convincingly, he was the French equivalent of Laurence Sterne, as well as a Samuel Beckett before his time and an effervescent source of witty paradoxes., Zaretsky, a sympathetic reader of the kind Diderot dreamt of, succeeds in resurrecting him as an author who speaks to our times: principled, but amenable to patronage; clinging to truth in the corridors of power; happiest at his desk experimenting with his own and other people's prose; a loquacious chaos; but, most importantly of all, a defender of humanity, progress and Enlightenment., In this riveting book--part biography, part historical fiction, part philosophical commentary--Robert Zaretsky brings to light the historic encounter between the great 18th-century French philosopher Denis Diderot and the empress of Russia, Catherine the Great., Catherine the great empress once told Diderot the great philosophe that while he had the luxury of writing on 'unfeeling paper,' her profession required her to write on human skin, which was 'far more ticklish.' How right she was! Yet for all their differences, the two enjoyed one of the most remarkable relationships of the Enlightenment age. Robert Zaretsky tells their story with elegance, wit, and insight in this delightful book., A wonderfully opinionated and erudite evaluation of the whole of Diderot's career, of the Enlightenment, and of Russian culture., A vivid, exceptionally readable narrative of Denis Diderot's visit to Russia and his encounter with Catherine the Great. It also provides a lucid introduction to Diderot's major works., Zaretsky has written a scintillating, sophisticated, and nuanced book that not only recounts the remarkable story of the Russian ruler and the French thinker, but also explores the complicated dance between power and ideas in the Age of Reason., A dual biography and the biography of a duel: between two great forces in history, the power of reason versus the might of politics...[Zaretsky's] book reads like a compelling historical novel, with passages that made me laugh out loud. Infused with rich sensual and emotional detail, this is one of the most enjoyable biographies I've read.
Lccn
2018-034816
Dewey Decimal
194
Lc Classification Number
B4215.E5z37 2019
Copyright Date
2019
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