Denis Diderot#Denis
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#Denis
Denis Diderot · 1713–1784
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Who this is
“He spent twenty years dragging the most dangerous publishing project of his century past censors, bans, and betrayals — and locked his own most dangerous books in a drawer, addressed to a future that would finally be ready for them.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Knowledge, organized and shared, can change the way a whole civilization thinks — and underneath it all, we are sensitive matter: nature thinking about itself.”
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