How to pronounce “diderot” in English

Diderot is the kind of guy would wake up in the morning and write about Chinese poetry, and then he would tackle the question of sugar cane,

Diderot grew up in a house, which was a house of industry and labor.

Diderot's interest in speaking to future generations from beyond the grave had come out of necessity.

Diderot's unpublished books, essays, and criticism far surpassed what he had published during his lifetime.

Diderot's effusive art criticism inspired Stendhal, Balzac, and Baudelaire.

Diderot's final cache, the lost collection of manuscripts that he had given to his daughter, had at last been found.

Diderot looks at predestination in a different kind of sense-- a materialist sense.

Diderot was the only one who really went there among the kind of the varsity team of the French Enlightenment.

Diderot, d'Alembert would have liked this aspect of Google.

And Diderot thought you could only think your greatest and most outrageous thoughts if you thought beyond God, after God.

the Diderot stationery store, and the Diderot Junior High.

And Diderot, in some of his other scientific works, thinks about almost this physiological freedom.

And Diderot was hired as a translator.

And Diderot, in fact, explicitly considered his duty in compiling and writing this encyclopedia was to serve as a store of knowledge.

Who is Diderot and why is this 18th century Frenchman of interest to us today?

who invited Diderot to her court for three months in 1773.

He used to be Diderot's best friend.

I read about Diderot the natural historian, the thinker who presented a godless chronicle of the world and the human species, anticipating natural selection

We talk about Diderot the art critic, the person who invites us all to break free of our conventions and make the viewing of art as personal and as inspired

There is here the Diderot Boulangerie bread shop, the Diderot driving school, the Diderot cigar shop-- remember, this place is really tiny--

So much of Diderot-- and you'll find this out in a second when I read-- is about legacy.

After removing Diderot's lead coffin from the vault, the men simply shook his decomposing body onto the church's marble floor.

To become familiar with Diderot's work is to be stupefied.

Émile Zola credited Diderot's vivisections of society as the foundation of the naturalism that characterized his and Balzac's novels.

The full extent of Diderot's influence was not known, however, until a young German academic, Herbert Dieckmann, located the final lost cache of Diderot's writings.

Having heard rumors that Diderot's conservative descendants continued to possess some of the lost manuscripts originally given to the writer's daughter,

It had been Diderot, as it turned out, who had penned the most influential and best-known anticolonial sections of this multi-volume book,

And I think about Diderot especially of what-- he seems to be very much a pioneer of deriving truth from looking at facts, and interrogating them, and so on.

What would Diderot think of right now?

And the most telling anecdote regarding Diderot's intellectual exuberance comes from Catherine the Great-- the great Empress of all the Russians--

She wrote that after several visits from Diderot, she ordered that a table be put between them because Diderot would often go into these fevered monologues

And like Rousseau and like Diderot, he was a great polymath.

There's a chapter on Diderot the skeptic, the critic of religion, and Diderot the political prisoner, which is very an intriguing part of his life.

And this is called "Unburying Diderot."

Perhaps the most significant addition to Diderot's corpus came in 1890 when a librarian discovered a complete manuscript version of Diderot's masterpiece,

Social theorists too were spellbound by Diderot's prescient thought.

At the same time, Diderot is far more joyful than many unbelievers.

Now, Diderot as a subject is a pretty tough guy to write about.

Now, Diderot here was born into a family of tradespeople.

Now, Diderot only spent 14 years or so in Langres, but his legacy looms large.

And now, Diderot has replaced this-- symbolically, the victory of positivism over so-called superstition.

And my favorite, the Diderot Senior High.

would still have recognized the name of the writer Denis Diderot inscribed on one of the caskets.

The following day, Diderot's remains, along with the other desiccated cadavers from the crypt, where presumably gathered up and transferred

Assuming the church's few remaining Paris priests had realized that Diderot had been buried in the church, they were undoubtedly relieved to be rid of the scandalous unbeliever.

Atheist or not, Diderot had long expressed a keen interest in being remembered, and if all things worked out,

What Voltaire and virtually everybody else did not know was that Diderot had actually written an astonishing range of improbably modern books

He was confronted with an enormous stockpile of Diderot's bound manuscripts.

And again, Denis Diderot, d'Alembert, d'Holach, all the French pre-revolutionaries who made this real revolution