Diderot’s Metamorphoses: Philosophy, Art, Science
EDITORIALE / Alice Barale, Maddalena Mazzocut-Mis, Claudio Rozzoni / This issue of Lo Sguardo aims to investigate the figure of...
EDITORIALE / Alice Barale, Maddalena Mazzocut-Mis, Claudio Rozzoni / This issue of Lo Sguardo aims to investigate the figure of...
SECTION I: Diderot the Philosopher
ARTICOLI / 1 / Stéphane Lojkine / Descartes’s Phantom Diderot’s relationship with Descartes is generally defined as one of opposition. More...
CONTRIBUTI / 1 / Viviana Galletta / Matter and “velleité”. Diderot in dialogue with Hemstrhuis The paper analyses the Diderot’s commentary...
CONTRIBUTI / 2 / Alberto De Vita / Theater, nature, and subject. The reception of Denis Diderot’s work in the...
SECTION II: Diderot the Writer
CONTRIBUTI / 3 / Rodrigue Boulingui / Poetics of Satire in Diderot In Le Neveu de Rameau, Diderot highlights two characters (Lui and Moi). They exchange on several themes with a broken stick and reveal the realities of the society of...
CONTRIBUTI / 4 / Nicolò De Gregorio / Hegel as a Reader of Diderot: ‘Le Neveu de Rameau’ in the Phenomenology of Spirit In this article, I take into account the reception of Diderot’s Rameau’s Nephew in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit....
CONTRIBUTI / 5 / Soumia Sadiki / The Dialectics of Denis Diderot: Between the Thought of Movement and the Movement of Thought Denis Diderot, an Enlightenment philosopher, integrates dialectics into his writings, prominently displayed in Rameau’s Nephew. Drawing inspiration from ancient...
CONTRIBUTI / 6 / James Clow / This paper explores the divergent forays made by Denis Diderot into aesthetic philosophy, focusing on the Art and Beau articles from the Encyclopédie, and the dialogue Rameau’s Nephew. Two central currents are identified running...
SECTION III: Diderot the Encyclopaedist
ARTICOLI / 2 / Maddalena Mazzocut-Mis / Aesthetics of Relationships: The Evolution of Taste in Diderot The entry «Beau» for the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers has at its centre the complex notion of...
ARTICOLI / 3 / Valentina Sperotto / Diderot: Irony and Encyclopaedia The aim of this article is to investigate the use of irony in the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot. Encyclopédie, indeed, is also a dictionary and the literary trope of irony...
SECTION IV: Diderot the Playwright
ARTICOLI / 4 / Paolo Quintili / Diderot as a Playwright. From Fils naturel To Est-il bon? Est-il méchant? Diderot’s dramaturgy, with the model of the Drame bourgeois, as it is known, marks a turning point in the history of theatre...
ARTICOLI / 5 / Fabrizio Vona / Diderot’s Theatrical Reform and Its Connections with Stanislavskij Within the history of theater, the 18th century marked some decisive milestones, not only with regard to the theoretical aspect, but also and especially under the...
SECTION V: Diderot the Art Critic
ARTICOLI / 5 / Matteo Marcheschi / Cooking and the Salons: Diderot, Stews, and the Rule of Beauty Starting from Denis Diderot’s Salons, the aim of this article is to show how cooking constitutes a veritable laboratory that allows us to...
CONTRIBUTI / 7 / Rahel Aerin Eslas / This paper focuses on the art criticism of Denis Diderot and proposes that in his Salon writings there is a consistent search for truth (la vérité) in painting. This specific notion of truth...
