Andrew S. Curran is the William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities and Professor of French at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely and Sublime Disorder, Physical Monstrosity in Diderot's Universe. Visit him at andrewscurran.com.
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Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopédie into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shadows. Thrown into prison for his atheism in 1749, Diderot decided to res... SEE MORE