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Back to EpisodesEnlightenment, Encyclopédie and Ernst Cassirer
Season 1
Episode 14
Published 2 years, 9 months ago
Description
How Diderot's Encyclopédie tried to organize all human knowledge — and how Cassirer later made sense of the Enlightenment as a whole.
Join me, Samuel Woodall, on Beyond the Text, where we unravel the Enlightenment's intricacies. From Descartes to Rousseau, and insights from scholars like Cassirer and Venturi, we explore reason's impact, philosophical debates, and the complex roots of the French Revolution.
As we wrap up, key questions linger—how did reason shape society? How did thinkers navigate philosophical tensions? What fuelled the French Revolution? Tune in for a journey into intellectual history, questioning, and discovery.