Letter on the Deaf and Dumb
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| La '''''Lettre sur les sourds et muets''''' ''à l'usage de ceux qui entendent & qui parlent'' (English: "Letter on the Deaf and Dumb) is an essay by [[Denis Diderot]], published anonymously in 1751. | La '''''Lettre sur les sourds et muets''''' ''à l'usage de ceux qui entendent & qui parlent'' (English: "Letter on the Deaf and Dumb) is an essay by [[Denis Diderot]], published anonymously in 1751. | ||
| - | "Diderot used to call [[Batteux]]'s book a headless book, because after he had reduced all the fine arts to a single principle that of imitating the beauty of nature, he never explained what the beauty of nature consisted in." | + | "Diderot used to call [[Batteux]]'s book a headless book, because after he had reduced all the fine arts to a single principle that of imitating the beauty of nature, he never explained what the beauty of nature consisted in."[https://archive.org/stream/earlyphilosophic00dide/earlyphilosophic00dide_djvu.txt] |
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La Lettre sur les sourds et muets à l'usage de ceux qui entendent & qui parlent (English: "Letter on the Deaf and Dumb) is an essay by Denis Diderot, published anonymously in 1751.
"Diderot used to call Batteux's book a headless book, because after he had reduced all the fine arts to a single principle that of imitating the beauty of nature, he never explained what the beauty of nature consisted in."[1]
See also
- Lettre sur les aveugles à l'usage de ceux qui voient
- "Letter on the Deaf and Dumb" [2]
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