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Denis Diderot
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Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was a French philosopher.

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He is closely associated with the Enlightenment, the European intellectual movement for social and scientific progress, as editor of the Encyclopedic 1751-1780.

An expanded and politicized version of Ephraim Chamber's English encyclopedia of 1728, this work exerted an enormous influence on contemporary social thinking with its materialism and anti-clericalism. Its compilers were known as the Encyclopidistes.

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Tags: writer, progress, materialism, enlightenment

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