Alembert, Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedie

Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot expresses the hopes, dogmas, assumptions, and prejudices that have come to characterize the French Enlightenment. In this preface to the Encyclopedia, d’Alembert traces the history of intellectual progress from the Renaissance to 1751.

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