A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who helped build the foundations of the modern world. Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopédie into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shadows. Thrown into prison for his atheism in 1749, Diderot decided to reserve his best books for posterity--for us, in fact. In the astonishing cache of unpublished writings left behind after his death, Diderot challenged virtually all of his century's accepted truths, from the sanctity of monarchy, to the racial justification of the slave trade, to the norms of human sexuality. One of Diderot's most attentive readers during his lifetime was Catherine the Great, who not only supported him financially, but invited him to St. Petersburg to talk about the possibility of democratizing the Russian empire. In this thematically organized biography, Andrew S. Curran vividly describes Diderot's tormented relationship with Rousseau, his curious correspondence with Voltaire, his passionate affairs, and his often iconoclastic stands on art, theater, morality, politics, and religion. But what this book brings out most brilliantly is how the writer's personal turmoil was an essential part of his genius and his ability to flout taboos, dogma, and convention.
Andrew S. Curran is the William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities at Wesleyan University. The author of two previous books, Sublime Disorder: Physical Monstrosity in Diderot's Universe and The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment, Curran is a Fellow in the history of medicine at the New York Academy of Medicine and a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques.
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评分我发现,这本书在行文的语气上保持了一种近乎古典的庄重感,但其内核却又充满了颠覆性的锐气,这种张力使得阅读体验非常独特。作者对“公共领域”概念的讨论尤其深刻,他巧妙地梳理了咖啡馆文化、小册子战争以及早期大众媒体的萌芽如何共同塑造了一个新的舆论空间。我从中体会到一种强烈的、对“思想自由”价值的捍卫,但这捍卫不是空洞的口号,而是建立在对历史反复验证的严谨考察之上的。每一次阅读,都像是在进行一次深入的考古挖掘,不仅仅是挖掘过去的文本,更是挖掘那些促使文本产生的、隐秘的社会动力与个人驱动力。这本书无疑是理解启蒙运动精神内核不可或缺的一部力作。
评分这本书的结构设计精妙得令人叹服,它并非采取传统的编年史或主题分类法,而是构建了一个多维度的网络来展示思想的相互渗透。我特别喜欢作者在处理不同思想流派之间的影响与反作用力时所采取的辩证手法。他没有简单地将人物或学说贴上“进步”或“落后”的标签,而是努力还原其历史的必然性与局限性。阅读过程中,我时常停下来沉思,去辨别那些看似毫不相干的领域——比如艺术批评、政治理论乃至自然科学探索——是如何在一个知识分子的大脑中交织并相互滋养的。这种整体性的、系统性的分析,极大地提升了我对那个时代知识生产模式的理解深度。它迫使读者跳出二元对立的思维定式,去拥抱思想的复杂性和连续性。
评分这本书最让我感到耳目一新的是它对“实践”层面的强调。很多关于那个时代的作品,过于侧重于最终定型的文本或理论的完美性,而这本书则聚焦于思想家们在实际生活中如何挣扎着去实现他们的理念。作者毫不避讳地揭示了知识分子在面对审查、资助困境以及个人道德选择时的窘迫,这种“去神化”的处理方式,反而使得这些历史人物变得无比真实和可亲近。它不是在歌颂偶像,而是在研究人——那些既有天才光芒,又有人性弱点的创造者。这种对“思想如何嵌入生活”的关注,为我理解当代知识分子的角色提供了一个极佳的历史参照点,让我思考“自由思考”在实际操作中究竟意味着什么。
评分这部著作简直是一场思想的盛宴,作者以其深厚的学养和敏锐的洞察力,为我们勾勒出了一个充满活力和争议的启蒙时代知识分子的群像。我尤其欣赏他对那个时代知识分子群体内部张力的细致描摹,那种在理性与激情、传统与革新之间不断拉扯、寻求突破的姿态,读来让人深感震撼。书中对具体思想交锋场景的再现,绝非干巴巴的理论堆砌,而是充满了戏剧性的张力,仿佛能闻到那个沙龙里弥漫的烟草味和辩论的热度。作者似乎拥有将历史还原为现场的能力,让我们得以一窥那些伟大思想是如何在具体的社会脉络和人际互动中孕育、争辩并最终定型的。这种对“思想发生地”的关注,使得全书的叙事充满了温度和可感性,而不是冰冷的学术陈述。
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