Diderot’s 1750 Encyclopedia
Diderot’s 1750 Encyclopedia
Diderot’s Encyclopedia was a work produced through the massive effort of many authors and thinkers. It attempted to catalog human knowledge and reimagine the world.
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?