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Cover: 9788028371715 | Rameau's Nephew | Denis Diderot | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2024
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Rameau's Nephew
A Parisian Café Dialogue of Enlightenment Satire, Art, Morality, and Patronage in Eighteenth-Century France
Taschenbuch von Denis Diderot
Sprache: Englisch

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Rameau's Nephew is one of the most unsettling and brilliant dialogues of the Enlightenment: a conversation between the composed philosopher "Moi" and the brilliantly disreputable "Lui," nephew of the composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. Set in the cafés and salons of Paris, the work fuses satire, philosophical inquiry, theatrical improvisation, and social anatomy, exposing the hypocrisies of patronage, genius, morality, and taste. Its shifting voices and ironic instability anticipate modern dialogic fiction. Denis Diderot, editor of the Encyclopédie and among the most radical minds of eighteenth-century France, wrote from within the intellectual and social contradictions he scrutinized. His experience of censorship, dependence on patrons, and engagement with materialist philosophy sharpened his fascination with performance, self-interest, and moral ambiguity. Rameau's Nephew remained unpublished in his lifetime, a sign of its audacity and its refusal of easy doctrine. This book is indispensable for readers interested in Enlightenment thought beyond its orderly ideals. It offers a dazzling portrait of intelligence at war with respectability, and of society revealed through its parasites, flatterers, and artists. Read it for its wit, its philosophical danger, and its startling modernity.
Rameau's Nephew is one of the most unsettling and brilliant dialogues of the Enlightenment: a conversation between the composed philosopher "Moi" and the brilliantly disreputable "Lui," nephew of the composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. Set in the cafés and salons of Paris, the work fuses satire, philosophical inquiry, theatrical improvisation, and social anatomy, exposing the hypocrisies of patronage, genius, morality, and taste. Its shifting voices and ironic instability anticipate modern dialogic fiction. Denis Diderot, editor of the Encyclopédie and among the most radical minds of eighteenth-century France, wrote from within the intellectual and social contradictions he scrutinized. His experience of censorship, dependence on patrons, and engagement with materialist philosophy sharpened his fascination with performance, self-interest, and moral ambiguity. Rameau's Nephew remained unpublished in his lifetime, a sign of its audacity and its refusal of easy doctrine. This book is indispensable for readers interested in Enlightenment thought beyond its orderly ideals. It offers a dazzling portrait of intelligence at war with respectability, and of society revealed through its parasites, flatterers, and artists. Read it for its wit, its philosophical danger, and its startling modernity.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Fachbereich: Populäre Darstellungen
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9788028371715
ISBN-10: 802837171X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Diderot, Denis
Hersteller: Sharp Ink
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, ?-170 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße: 229 x 152 x 4 mm
Von/Mit: Denis Diderot
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.05.2024
Gewicht: 0,108 kg
Artikel-ID: 129277813
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