Diderot’s 1750 Encyclopedia (12:26)
Key Ideas
As this video progresses, key ideas will be introduced to invoke discussion.
Key Ideas
Think about the following questions as you watch the video
- 01:58 How was Paris in 1750 a ‘contradiction’?
- 04:05 How was the encyclopedia also representative of this contradiction?
- 06:12 What political and national revolutions does the video connect to the philosophes and their encyclopedia?
- 08:14 Why, according to the video, did some “enlightened monarchs” and aristocrats support this work?
- 12:22 Why was the encyclopedia so controversial?