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Professor Pens Playful History of Reference Works (Rutgers University)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Apr 2016
(Source. Rutgers University). Jack Lynch is a professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark, specializing in 18th-century English literature and the history of the English language ... In addition to his scholarly monographs, he has authored several books for general audiences, including The Lexicographer's Dilemma ... Lynch. ... Samuel Johnson's and Noah Webster's dictionaries, the Encyclopédie and the Encyclopædia Britannica, and so on....

Exhibit spotlights French Enlightenment controversy (Grand Valley State University)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Mar 2016
A new exhibit at Grand Valley is the first public showing of one of the few full sets of the Encyclopédie - a text published between 1751 and 1772 that attempted to record all human knowledge while promoting freedom of expression ... Louis said his interest in studying the Encyclopédie began during European Civilization I and II, a yearlong sequence course for first-year students in the Frederik Meijer Honors College....

RU-N's Jack Lynch Pens Playful History of Reference Works (Rutgers University, Newark)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Mar 2016
(Source. Rutgers University, Newark). Eighteenth-century English Lit scholar takes the drudgery out of 'looking it up.'. Jack Lynch is a professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark, specializing in 18-century English literature and the history of the English language ... What inspired you to write this book? ... Samuel Johnson's and Noah Webster's dictionaries, the Encyclopédie and the Encyclopædia Britannica, and so on ... Original Document....

Voltaire (1694-1778)

Edit About.com 21 Feb 2016
Who Is?.. Voltaire was the pen name of François-Marie Arouet, a central figure in the seventeen-hundreds intellectual movement known as the Enlightenment. Voltaire’s writings are most famous for their advocacy of the autonomy of the individual and the State with respect to the church. Voltaire’s style is distinct for being lucid and witty ... He is the author of Candide and a contributor to the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert ... Deism.....

Thomas Kinsella: ‘eliciting order from significant experience’

Edit The Irish Times 13 Jan 2016
“We cannot renew the Gift. But we can drain it to the last drop.” ... . ... In addition to cover art, several Peppercanisters include additional art work inside the text, the most notable examples being One (1972), with line drawings by Anne Yeats reflecting the Celtic myths that inform the poems, and A Technical Supplement (1976),which includes illustrations selected from volumes of plates issued with Denis Diderot’s Encyclopédie ... Ed ... Dublin....

Hacking the Humanities

Edit New Yorker 07 Jul 2015
Last spring, I taught a literature seminar called “Before Wikipedia.” The subject was the history of encyclopedic writing, from ancient times to the present day. We read excerpts of Isidore of Seville’s “Etymologies” and Diderot’s “Encyclopédie” alongside works by Calvino, Sebald, and Flaubert.

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More than words (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Edit noodls 22 May 2015
(Source. Virginia Commonwealth University). Friday, May 22, 2015. A book carved into the shape of a handgun ... "They're published in small editions. Some are unique." ... 3 ... Scott McCarney, who received a degree from the School of the Arts in 1976, created this artists' book by carving a 20th-century Doubleday Encyclopedia to reveal images of workers representing the book trades from Diderot's 18th-century "L'Encyclopédie."....

The 2015 European Union Film Festival - Part 5

Edit The Examiner 15 Mar 2015
Part 1 is here. Part 2. Part 3 ... From the 1970s on, he primarily worked on his massive Encyclopédie Borremans, an encyclopedic dictionary of the history, culture, customs and legends of the Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire), with entries for Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso and the republic of Guinea as well. But despite his dedication, and the voluminous amounts of information he compiled, the Encyclopédie remained unfinished when he died in 1988 ... ....

'Into the Vault' video series highlights treasures from University Libraries Special Collections (Washington University in Saint Louis)

Edit noodls 04 Dec 2014
In this video, Tili Boon Cuillé, PhD, associate professor of French in Arts & Sciences, discusses Diderot's "Encyclopédie." ... Other videos showcase Denis Diderot's "Encyclopédie," Charles Darwin's "The Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects" and a 1678 letter from Isaac Newton to natural philosopher Robert Hooke....

National Endowment for the Humanities supports digital project focused on 18th-century intellectual history (University of Chicago)

Edit noodls 24 Feb 2014
(Source. University of Chicago). Long before iPhones, Twitter and text messages, 18th-century thinkers already were worried about information overload. How, they wondered, could anyone possibly keep up with the surfeit of new books and ideas making their way into the world? ...   ... The collaboration's flagship project is a digitized version of philosopher Denis Diderot's massive Encyclopédie ... distributed by ... (noodl. 22108679) ....

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: as relevant as ever

Edit The Guardian 20 Jan 2014
Jean-Jacques Rousseau is generally seen, especially in Britain, as the worst sort of intellectual. absurdly self-regarding, and dangerously naive, in his fond belief in the natural goodness of humanity, which fed the excesses of the French Revolution, and maybe sowed other totalitarian seeds. I have come to think he deserves more respect ... Another example ... He then moved to Paris in 1741, and did some writing for the Encyclopédie ... ....
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