This study links, for the first time, three separate areas of research: Denis Diderot's visit to Petersburg in 1773-74, Diderot in Soviet criticism, and Marxism and the French Enlightenment. Diderot's relations with Russia, Catherine the Great, other Russians, the Russian language and Slavophilism are all discussed in the light of western, Russian and Soviet sources. A detailed analysis of Soviet criticism of Diderot in the key areas of his political and religious thought then follows. From this examination a more accurate portrait of the eighteenth-century philosophe emerges, while the tracing - and linking - of three centuries of European intellectual history provide an enhanced perspective from which to view current events.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN-10
0820419974
ISBN-13
9780820419978
eBay Product ID (ePID)
129011289
Product Key Features
Author
Peter H. Kaufman
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Literary Criticism
Type
Textbook
Dimensions
Weight
440g
Additional Product Features
Issn
1045-4497
Series Part/Volume Number
4
First Published
1994
Series Title
The Age of Revolution and Romanticism Interdisciplinary Studies
Author Biography
The Author: Peter H. Kaufman is an assistant professor of French at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. Prior to this appointment, he taught at Columbia University and Hunter College of the City University of New York. He received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His graduate education included periods of study in Paris and Moscow.