The Atheist's Bible : Diderot's '�El�ements de Physiologie'.
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Intro -- Contents -- For Leo and Viola -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: The Curious Materialist -- 2. 'Toutes les imperfections de l'inach�evement': The Mystification about the Manuscript Fragments -- 3. Material World and Embodied Mind -- 4. Diderot the Physiologist -- 5. 1790: Naigeon and the Adresse �a l'Assembl�ee nationale -- 6. 1792: Naigeon's Article on 'Diderot' in the Encyclop�edie m�ethodique: Philosophie ancienne et moderne -- 7. 1794: 'Le citoyen Garron', the Comit�e d'instruction publique, and the Lost Manuscript of the �El�ements de physiologie -- 8. 1794-95: Garat and the �Ecole normale -- 9. 1796-97: Cabanis and Destutt de Tracy at the Institut national -- 10. 1798, 1802: Naigeon, the �uvres de Diderot, and the Censored Preface to Montaigne -- 11. 1820: Garat's M�emoires historiques sur la vie de M. Suard, sur ses �ecrits, et sur le XVIIIe si�ecle -- 12. 1823: Naigeon's M�emoires historiques et philosophiques sur la vie et les ouvrages de Denis Diderot -- 13. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Team.
'Love is harder to explain than hunger, for a piece of fruit does not feel the desire to be eaten': Denis Diderot's �El�ements de physiologie presents a world in flux, turning on the relationship between man, matter and mind. In this late work, Diderot delves playfully into the relationship between bodily sensation, emotion and perception, and asks his readers what it means to be human in the absence of a soul.The Atheist's Bible challenges prevailing scholarly views on Diderot's �El�ements, asserting its contemporary philosophical importance, and prompting its readers to inspect more closely this little-known and little-studied work. This book is accompanied by a digital edition of Jacques-Andr�e Naigeon's M�emoires historiques et philosophiques sur la vie et les ouvrages de Denis Diderot (1823), a work which, Warman argues, represents the first publication of Diderot's �El�ements, long before its official publication date of 1875.The Atheist's Bible constitutes a major contribution to the field of Diderot studies, and will be of further interest to scholars and students of materialist natural philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment and beyond.