42 - Andy Curran - Diderot, Intellectual Libertine
Two for Tea Podcast
English - November 26, 2019 22:06 - 1 hour - 130 MB - ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
3:38 What attracted Andy to Diderot?
7:09 Diderot’s radical questioning of political and sexual norms: homosexuality; masturbation; incest fantasies
20:55 “My thoughts are my sluts”—intellectual libertinage
25:44 Diderot’s relationships with women
28:00 Diderot as a playwright
30:24 Religious sexual fantasies
31:00 The Literary Correspondence
31:50 Diderot on painting and on acting
39:15 Samuel Richardson and the new focus on humble people
41:32 La Religieuse (The Nun)
45:12 Diderot on slavery
51:08 Diderot’s letters
56:18 Diderot on free will, materialism, atheism
1:00:18 The Encyclopédie
1:18:05 Diderot’s politics
1:22:05 His unfettered joy in life
Andy’s books:
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely (2019);
Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment (2011, 2013)
and
Sublime Disorder, Physical Monstrosity in Diderot's Universe (2001) can all be found on Amazon. Follow his author page here:
https://www.amazon.com/Andrew-S-Curran/e/B004FOWWD0/
You can find out more about Andy here:
https://www.andrewscurran.com/
And here:
https://www.wesleyan.edu/academics/faculty/acurran/profile.html
Follow Andy on Twitter @AndrewSCurran