Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is the Albert Guérard Professor in Literature Emeritus at Stanford University. His books written in English include In 1926 (1998), Production of Presence (Stanford, 2004), In Praise of Athletic Beauty (2006), Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung (Stanford, 2012), After 1945 (Stanford, 2013), and Our Broad Present (2014).
"Innovative, lively, and full of ideas and insights, Prose of the
World is a major contribution to our understanding and appreciation
of Diderot's thought."—Thomas Pavel, author of The Lives of the
Novel: A History
"This book represents a significant contribution by one of the
world's leading literary scholars and public intellectuals, whose
deep familiarity with the history of ideas and philosophy display a
rare ingenuity."—Markus Gabriel, author of Why the World Does Not
Exist
"Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Literature Professor Emeritus at Stanford
University, brings to bear his 50-year intellectual love affair
with Diderot to give us this magisterial study."—Dr. Cliff
Cunningham, Sun New Austin
"Does Diderot (1713–84) have a particular affinity with the present
time? Could the 21st century become, in terms of reception and
resonance, the Age of Diderot, as the 19th was the Age of Voltaire
and the 20th the Age of Rousseau? These questions drive this
ambitious, erudite work by one of today's leading cultural
historians and literary critics...Essential." CHOICE
"Gumbrecht's readings of these texts are astute, rigorous, and
thought-provoking, and resist any straightforward or reductive
explanation of Diderot's ideas.... By turns effortlessly readable
and intriguingly opaque, intellectually provocative in its
reflections and yet hard to pin down to one thesis, this study
encapsulates something of its genial yet complex subject matter in
its very approach."—Joseph Harris, Lessing Yearbook
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