Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, The Philosopher, And The Fate Of The Enlightenment

In 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, Robert Zaretsky invites us to reflect on the fraught relationship between politics and philosophy, and between a man of thought and a woman of action.

• | Author: Robert Zaretsky
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 01, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674737903
• | ISBN-13: 9780674737907