Download or read book Diderot's Part written by Andrew Herrick Clark and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Clark proposes a comprehensive interpretation of Diderot's entire literary, philosophical, and scientific oeuvre as the locus of a fundamental reconceptualization of the relation of part to whole - bee to swarm; organ to body; word to phrase; dissonant chord to harmonic progression; article to encyclopedia; and individual citizen to body politic.