Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment 9780674237353

In a dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Rus

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Table of contents :
Contents
Prologue
1. The Sea at Scheveningen
2. Reading Voltaire in Saint Petersburg
3. R is for Riga
4. Glasnost
5. The Shadow Lands
6. The Hermitage
7. Extraordinary Men and Events
8. Colic and Constitutions
9. The Road Not Taken
10. Send for Seneca
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment
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