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Article: Diderot et la Revolution Francaise: Controverses et polemique autour d'un philosophe.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2002
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Diderot et la Revolution Francaise: Controverses et polemique autour d'un philosophe. By RENE TARIN Preface by ROLAND DESNE Paris: Champion. 2001. 179 pp.
Anymodern admirer of Diderot possessed of rather more than a passing acquaintance with his reception since his death in 1784 will initially be puzzled by the obloquy, contempt, or indifference suffered by his work, to say nothing of his personality, until the twenties and thirties of last century. Indeed, it is only as a result of the great surge in eighteenth-century studies since 1945 that his cote critique has risen and that posterity has at last allocated to him the very high place he now enjoys in the pantheon ...