I am not a psychologist or a philosopher. But I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the goals we pursue, the things we own, and the items we buy. I find it to be a fascinating study into human ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Humanities Professor Andrew Curran discussed the life of French enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot and the writing of the the Encyclopédie, written ...

Three hundred years ago, the author and philosopher Denis Diderot predicted that, according to author Andrew Curran, "The real threat to American democracy would not come from foreign powers; it would ...

Before there was Wikipedia, there were encyclopedias — and Saturday marks the 300th birthday of the father of one of the world's most important. Eighteenth-century French philosopher Denis Diderot was ...

What would happen if we could see the world through fresh eyes, and think about human experience in a new way, unencumbered by the old, discredited systems of knowledge? That question was part of what ...

Let us begin with last words, or at least the last words spoken in his daughter’s hearing by one of France’s greatest thinkers and one of its most congenial spirits, Denis Diderot. In 1784 the ailing ...

You're certainly familiar with the feeling: you get an idea for one project, and then a queue starts lining up in your head as you imagine everything else you could be doing. You scroll through your ...

** Originally published on June 10, 2019. What would happen if we could see the world through fresh eyes, and think about human experience in a new way, unencumbered by the old, discredited ways of ...

When Charles Scribner’s Sons decided to publish an illustrated book on hoofed mammals in 1953, it was probably not a subject with promising financial prospects—a worthy scientific treatise, perhaps, ...