The Life of Denis Diderot
b'Denis Diderot was an 18th-century French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclop\\xe9dia along with Jean le Rond d\\u2019Alembert. He was an important member of the Age of Enlightenment, who claims the Encyclop\\xe9dia as its crowning achievement. Diderot used his influence in society to bring to light the unfair treatment of the working class caused by his contemporaries in power. However, his work brought the wrath of the government upon him. Today, we bring in Andrew S. Curran to give us a closer look at Diderot\\u2019s life and the politics of his era.\\nGuest: Andrew S. Curran is the William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities. He has served on the editorial board of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture and is presently on the board of Critical Philosophy of Race and Diderot Studies. Curran also received a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars award in 2016. He has authored such books as\\xa0Sublime Disorder: Physical Monstrosity in Diderot\\u2019s Universe,\\xa0The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment, as well as the topic of today\\u2019s show, Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely.\\nThe post The Life of Denis Diderot appeared first on KPFA.'