Description
Major Enlightenment reference work that aimed to gather, organize, and circulate knowledge across philosophy, science, crafts, and the arts.
Relevance
Useful as a key resource node for the French Enlightenment because it represents both a body of knowledge and a collaborative intellectual project of criticism, classification, and reformist inquiry.
Notes
The Encyclopedie matters not only for its contents but also for the public and political significance of producing and disseminating knowledge in the eighteenth century.