Diderot and The Art of Thinking Freely
b'A conversation on eighteenth-century philosopher Denis Diderot and the battle over his encyclopedia which was considered to be full of subversive stuff.\\xa0 Diderot challenged virtually all of his century\\u2019s accepted truths, from the sanctity of monarchy, to the racial justification of the slave trade, to the norms of human sexuality.\\xa0 He is considered a prophetic\\xa0philosopher\\xa0 who helped build the foundations of the modern world.\\nGuest:\\xa0Andrew S. Curran is\\xa0the William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities and Professor of French at Wesleyan University.\\xa0 He is the author of\\xa0The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment, and Sublime Disorder, Physical Monstrosity in Diderot\\u2019s Universe.\\xa0 And his latest,\\xa0Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely.\\n\\xa0\\nThe post Diderot and The Art of Thinking Freely appeared first on KPFA.'