Diderot
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- proper noun
- /ˈdɪdəroʊ/
- For Voltaire and Diderot, Eastern Europe was a space dominated by poverty, gloom, and backwardness.
- Denis Diderot
- Diderot and d'Alembert
- Diderot's Supplement
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- Dennis Diderot, this Enlightenment philosopher, wrote a great book like that called Jacques the the Fatalist and His Master.
- Are using caffeine, the Enlightenment writers, Voltaire, Diderot, big caffeine consumers.
- He's getting this, Miller tells us, from Diderot's Ramos nephew, right, which we can talk about much later on.
Examples
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By contrast, Diderot reveals the plot so as to annul all "narrativity" inherent in the performed play.
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Its situation represents an extreme development of Diderot's notion of the tableau.
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Again, the parallel with Diderot will not have been lost on Napoleon.
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I have chosen to use Diderot as my point of departure for this study of Gengangere for several reasons.
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According to Diderot, the painter should represent scenes in which the viewer is figured as absent.
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Now this is not exactly the stuff of Diderot, Voltaire, Rousseau and and these other people.
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In this way, Diderot substituted the worship of God with a humanist regard.
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Here we can locate one of a number of differences between Diderot's and Brecht's "cold" and "detached" actors.
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Among other things, it contains Diderot's summary of an argument he had with two friends, Suard and Mme. d'Houdetot.
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According to Diderot, the painter should represent scenes in which the viewer is figured as absent.
Synonyms
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A French writer and thinker of the 1700s who edited the Encyclopédie and helped spread new ideas about reason
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Diderot is a French family name that comes from the old given name Didier, which comes from Latin Desiderius meaning 'desired' or 'longed for'. As the family name of the famous French thinker, Diderot simply identifies the person, and you can remember it by thinking of the English word desire, since the root means someone who was 'wanted' or 'longed for'.