Diderot
Enlightenment knowledge compiler
Diderot refers to Denis Diderot (1713–1784), a French philosopher and writer who co-edited the *Encyclopédie*, a landmark work of the Enlightenment that sought to compile human knowledge and promote reason.
His name appears in discussions of intellectual history, editorial ambition, and the democratization of knowledge: a Diderot-like project to catalog everything.
French surname, philosopher or painter
- VoltaireFrench Enlightenment satirist
- GrimmFolklorist brothers' surname
- Catherine the GreatRussian empress, enlightenment era
- correspondenceExchanged written communication
letters · quarrel · friendship · patronage · Russia · Paris · coterie · circle
Comprehensive subject-matter collection
- d'AlembertFrench polymath, encyclopedist
- volumesAmounts or books
- platesFlat eating dishes
- engravingsIncised designs on surfaces
knowledge · compendium · contributors · articles · subscribers · banned · suppressed · printers
Author of comprehensive references
- EnlightenmentEra prioritizing reason over dogma
- philosopheEnlightenment French thinker
- materialistValues physical over spiritual
- atheistOne denying gods exist
rationalist · freethinker · skeptic · salons · coffeehouse · intellectual · empiricist · secularist
Analyzing visual creative works
- paintingPigment on canvas
- exhibitionsPublic showings of objects
- aestheticConcerning beauty or art
- beautyAesthetic excellence
genius · taste · judgment · sentiment · expression · composition · color · Louvre
Writer of prose narratives
- dramatistWriter of stage works
- The NunFemale monastic devotee
- dialogueSpoken exchange between parties
- satireMockery exposing vice
fiction · theater · paradox · narrator · digression · metafiction · epistolary · posthumous
Rousseau
French surname, philosopher or painter
- VoltaireFrench Enlightenment satirist
- GrimmFolklorist brothers' surname
- Catherine the GreatRussian empress, enlightenment era
correspondence · letters · quarrel · friendship · patronage · Russia · Paris · coterie · circle · protege
encyclopedia
Comprehensive subject-matter collection
- d'AlembertFrench polymath, encyclopedist
- volumesAmounts or books
- platesFlat eating dishes
engravings · knowledge · compendium · contributors · articles · subscribers · banned · suppressed · printers · Breton
encyclopedist
Author of comprehensive references
- EnlightenmentEra prioritizing reason over dogma
- philosopheEnlightenment French thinker
- materialistValues physical over spiritual
atheist · rationalist · freethinker · skeptic · salons · coffeehouse · intellectual · empiricist · secularist · radical
art criticism
Analyzing visual creative works
- paintingPigment on canvas
- exhibitionsPublic showings of objects
- aestheticConcerning beauty or art
beauty · genius · taste · judgment · sentiment · expression · composition · color · Louvre · reviews
novelist
Writer of prose narratives
satire · fiction · theater · paradox · narrator · digression · metafiction · epistolary · posthumous · manuscript
DiderotBlaise Pascal
Seventeenth-century French mathematician-theologian
Thomas Aquinas · clergy · scholasticism · dogmatism · obscurantism
DiderotRousseau
French surname, philosopher or painter
Counter-Reformation · Romanticism · traditionalism · reaction · ancien régime
Diderotcensors
Those who suppress content
Inquisition · secret societies · ivory tower · gatekeepers · suppression