Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment by Robert Zaretsky

Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment

Robert Zaretsky

272 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy informative slow-paced
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A dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it with great aplomb.In October 1773, after a grueling trek from Paris, the aged and ailing Denis Diderot...

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