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- A new translation of what is arguably Diderot's masterpiece by distinguished translator Margaret Mauldon, with lively introduction and notes by Nicholas Cronk.
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- Includes, for the first time in English, extracts from Goethe's commentary on this seminal Enlightenment work.
'unless you know everything, you really know nothing'
Diderot's brilliant and witty dialogue begins with a chance encounter in a Paris café between two acquaintances. Their talk ranges broadly across art, music, education, and the contemporary scene, as the nephew of composer Rameau, amoral and bohemian, alternately shocks and amuses the moral, bourgeois figure of his interlocutor. Exuberant and highly entertaining, the dialogue exposes the corruption of society in Diderot's characteristic philosophical exploration.
The debates of the French Enlightenment speak
to us vividly in this sparkling new translation, which also includes the First Satire , a related work that provides the context for Rameau's Nephew, Diderot's 'second satire'.Readership: Students and readers of French literature, French studies, eighteeenth-century French literature, history, philosophy, Diderot
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Denis Diderot Translated by Margaret Mauldon and Introduction and Notes by Nicholas Cronk, Director, Voltaire Foundation, and Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
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