Les vertus utopiques de l’encylopédisme
According to numerous journalists and scholars Diderot and D’Alembert’s Encyclopédie (1751-1772) «was the Wikipedia of its day». The online encyclopaedia launched by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales on January 15, 2001 is said to share many characteristics with that Enlightenment masterpiece. What are they? What do they tell us about the conception of knowledge then and now? About its transmission? Can we go beyond this convenient comparison and understand what profoundly unites both enterprises?
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