TY - BOOK ID - 136439216 TI - Catherine & Diderot : the empress, the philosopher, and the fate of the Enlightenment PY - 2019 SN - 0674240863 0674237358 PB - Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Enlightenment KW - History. KW - Catherine KW - Diderot, Denis, KW - Catherine the Great. KW - D'Alembert's Dream. KW - Jacques the Fatalist and His Master. KW - Peter III. KW - Rameau's Nephew. KW - The Nun. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136439216 AB - In a dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it with great aplomb, Robert Zaretsky invites us to reflect on the fraught relationship between politics and philosophy, and between a man of thought and a woman of action. ER -