Intellectual bio, but rather light on context and his impact and legacy

Review of Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely by Andrew S. Curran

This is a largely descriptive book on one of the Enlightenment's greatest avatars, Diderot.  It follows how his thought evolved, particularly through the writings he published, but also what he left unpublished in an enormous cache that has been dribbling out posthumously.  Unfortunately, for all its enjoyment as a reading experience, I did not feel tha…