Philosophy of the Enlightenment and literary criticismFrench1713–1784
“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
Denis Diderot was a French philosopher, writer, and art critic, and one of the leading figures of the Enlightenment. As the chief editor of the Encyclopédie, he played an important role in expanding knowledge, promoting rationalism, and criticizing traditional authorities in eighteenth-century Europe.
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