Le Bizarre and Le Decousu in the Novels and Theoretical Works of Denis Diderot: How the Idea of Marginality Originated in Eighteenth-Century France by Barbara Lise Abrams
Le Bizarre and Le Decousu in the Novels and Theoretical Works of Denis Diderot: How the Idea of Marginality Originated in Eighteenth-Century France
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Barbara Lise Abrams
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Le Bizarre and Le Decousu in the Novels and Theoretical Works of Denis Diderot: How the Idea of Marginality Originated in Eighteenth-Century France

Barbara Lise Abrams

150 pages • first pub 2009 (view editions)

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This book probes the background of our modern concept of marginality by focusing on Diderot's materialist philosophy and his search for the origins of genius, and locating it within the French Enlightenment quest for truth.

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