Diderot＇s Encyclopedie and the French Enlightenment： Summarizing Knowledge and Questioning Knowledge  

作　　者：Marian Hobson 

机构地区：[1]School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary, University of London, London E14NS, UK

出　　处：《Frontiers of Philosophy in China》2013年第2期215-229,共15页中国哲学前沿（英文版）

摘　　要：The article examines the tradition of the writing of Encyclopaedias and historical dictionaries in seventeenth and eighteenth century France. The main ones--by Bayle, Chambers, and by the group assembled by d＇Alembert and Diderot--are all connected with unorthodoxy in religion. The massive collection of knowledge that all three dictionaries compiled sometimes seems to allow a juxtaposition of ideas which cannot be properly reconciled--a situation which leaves it to the reader to create a coherent whole. But Diderot goes the farthest in this direction, and causes even the possibility of such a whole to be questioned.The article examines the tradition of the writing of Encyclopaedias and historical dictionaries in seventeenth and eighteenth century France. The main ones--by Bayle, Chambers, and by the group assembled by d＇Alembert and Diderot--are all connected with unorthodoxy in religion. The massive collection of knowledge that all three dictionaries compiled sometimes seems to allow a juxtaposition of ideas which cannot be properly reconciled--a situation which leaves it to the reader to create a coherent whole. But Diderot goes the farthest in this direction, and causes even the possibility of such a whole to be questioned.

关 键 词：SKEPTICISM unorthodoxy SUMMATION impossibility of summary 

分 类 号：TP391[自动化与计算机技术—计算机应用技术] G237.4[自动化与计算机技术—计算机科学与技术]