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Article: On Diderot & Condorcet.(Denis Diderot, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat)(Brief Article)
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- March 22, 2002
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The texts that follow are excerpts from two seminal documents of the Enlightenment debate about intellectual property that Carla Hesse recounts in her essay in this volume, and that Roger Chartier analyzes in detail in his contribution. The first is by Denis Diderot (1713-1784), writer, philosopher, and editor of the Encyclopedie. The second is from the pen of Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794), philosopher, mathematician, and politician executed for his Girondin sympathies during the Terror.
The two texts are a study in contrasts, not only for their contradictory positions on the key issue of authorial rights (Diderot held ...
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