Gopnik on Diderot is a perfect marriage of author and subject, and if you think that's a compliment it's not: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/04/how-the-man-of-reason-got-radicalized …
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I think Gopnik makes an unintentionally strong case that it's not.
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"Chattering can be a way of mattering" - Diderot had his limits, but he was a great novelist and art critic, he would have been revolted by a phrase like that.
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