"Encyclopédie," by Diderot, edited by Scott Richard St. Louis and David Eick

Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, by Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d’Alembert, and Louis, Chevalier de Jaucourtedited by Scott Richard St. Louis and David Eick Eick’s and St. Louis’s thoughtful selection of articles from Diderot’s and D’Alembert’s Encyclopédie provides an excellent gateway to some of the highlights and contradictions of French Enlightenment thought. Professors and students alike will find this anthology (and its introduction and critical apparatus) to be tremendously useful. ~ Andrew Curran (Wesleyan University), author of Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely. There is no better way to explore the French Enlightenment than by dipping into its greatest work, Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie. In this volume, Scott Richard St. Louis and David Eick have selected an eclectically wide range of articles to give students of French language and literature a means of entering into the experience of reading the original. A useful in