Diderot y el arte de pensar libremente

Denis Diderot was the embodiment of the Enlightenment and what it meant as a project of human liberation. Imprisoned as an atheist and libertine in his early thirties, he chose not to publish much of his work while alive (and not claim authorship of as many influential books) while supervising and writing thousands of Encyclopédie entries. In the articles he wrote for the immense dictionary, as well as in his posthumous works, Diderot questioned all the accepted truths of his time: he defended atheism and radical materialism, and he lashed out at the legitimacy of the monarchy, social inequality, trafficking of slaves, superstitions, the repression of sexuality ... Defender of freedom of thought, his genius and ability to break with dogma and convention led him to renounce dialogue with his contemporaries in exchange for what, he was convinced It would be a more fruitful debate with future generations, capable of putting texts to trial that not only question the philosophical, political, aesthetic and moral ideas of the 18th century, but also ours.