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Sto caricando le informazioni... Enlightening the world : Encyclopédie, the book that changed the course of history (originale 2004; edizione 2005)di Philipp Blom
Informazioni sull'operaEnlightening the World: Encyclopedie, The Book That Changed the Course of History di Philipp Blom (2004)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Philipp Blom is a delightful writer and this is a fascinating and highly entertaining history of the great French Encyclopedie which took about 25 years to write in the mid-1700s. Despite the title, this is really a book about people, with the encyclopedie as thread to tie the stories together. I have very little background in 18th C European/French history Blom makes it entirely accessible for novice and expert alike (although I suspect many of the stories here are well worn, but new to me, and well told). Probably the greatest compliment is I want to learn more about those involved, probably starting with a biography of Rousseau. This book easily sits besides Simon Winchester's "The Meaning of Everything" and Henry Hitchings "Defining the World". As another reviewer mentioned, anyone with an interest in Wikipedia will find it fascinating. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
The story of one of the most revolutionary books in history: the Encyclopedie and the young men who risked everything to write it. In 1777 a group of young men produced a book that aimed to tear the world apart and rebuild it. It filled 27 volumes and contained 72,000 articles, 16,500 pages and 17 million words. The Encyclopedie was so dangerous and subversive that it was banned by the Pope and was seen as one of the causes of the French Revolution. The writers included some of the greatest minds of the age: Denis Diderot, the editor, who had come to Paris to become a Jesuit but found the joys of the city too enticing; d'Alembert, one of the leading mathematician of the 18th century; Rousseau, the father of Romanticism and Voltaire, the author of CANDIDE. During the 16 years it took to write, compile and produce all 27 volumes, the writers had to defy the authorities and faced exile, jail and censorship, as well as numerous internal falling outs and philosophical differences. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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La historia del gran proyecto que fue la gran Enciclopedia de Diderot Y D Alembert. La mayor empresa intelectual del siglo XVIII, el triunfo de la razón en tiempos de la sin razón. ( )