Diderot: Political Writings Diderot Mason Wokler Hardback 9780521360449

Diderot: Political WritingsAuthor(s): Denis Diderot, John Hope Mason, Robert Wokler\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521360449, 978-0521360449\nSynopsis\nDenis Diderot [tel] was one of the most significant figures of the French enlightenment. His political writings cover the period from the first volume of the Encyclopedie [tel], of which he was principal editor, to the third edition of Raynal's Histoire des Deux Indes [tel], one of the most widely read books of the pre-revolutionary period. This volume contains the most important of Diderot's articles for the Encyclopedie, a substantial number of his contributions to the Histoire, the complete texts of his Supplement au Voyage de Bougainville, one of his most visionary works, and his Observations sur le Nakaz, a precise and detailed political work translated here into English for the first time. The editors' introduction sets these works in th.