狄德罗政治著作选

DenisDiderot（1713-84）wasoneofthemostsignificantfiguresoftheFrenchEnlightenment.HispoliticalwritingscovertheperiodfromthefirstvolumeoftheEncyclopedie（1751），ofwhichhewasprincipaleditor，tothethirdeditonofRaynal'sHistionredesDeuxIndes（1780），oneofthemostwidelyreadbooksoftheper-revolutionalryperiod.ThisvolumecontainsthemostimportantofDiderot'sarticlesfortheEncyclopedie，asubstantialnumberofhiscontributionstotheHistoireandthecompletetextsofhisSupplementauVoyagedeBougainville，oneofhismostvisionaryworks，andhisObservationssurleNakaz，apreciseanddetailedpoliticalworktranslatedhereinEnglishforthefirsttime.Theeditor'sintroductionsetstheseworksintheircontextandshowstheunderlyingcoherenceofDiderot'sthought.Achronologyofeventsandalistoffurtherreadingareincludedasaidstothereader.