THE PASSIONS OF THE SOULE, in three books. Translated, with prefatory letters, 1650.
His works manifest original, daring and independent genius, endowed with great force and subtlety of thought. Spinoza derived from him his pantheism, and Berkeley his pure idealism. His influence was almost universal in the seventeenth century. Newton demonstrated his more simple physical principles.
DIDEROT, DENIS. b. 1713, d. 1784. French philosopher and savant.
DORVAL, or THE TEST OF VIRTUE. A Comedy [in five acts and in prose]. Tr. 1767.
AN ESSAY ON BLINDNESS, etc. Interspersed with several anecdotes of Sanderson, Milton, and others. Tr. [1750].
THE FAMILY PICTURE: a play (Père de Famille); with verses on different subjects. By a Lady, 1781.
RAMEAU'S NEPHEW. [1805]. Tr. by S. M. Hill, 1897.
THOUGHTS ON ART AND STYLE. Tr. 1893.
A satire on Parisian society, as it was just before the Revolution, in the form of a dialogue, which gives a view of the world as seen through the eyes of a parasite.
His reputation is founded upon the 'Encyclopædia, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et Métiers'. This was written in conjunction with d'Alembert.