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  <about><![CDATA[Denis Diderot, né le 5 octobre[1] 1713 à Langres et mort le 31 juillet 1784 à Paris, est un écrivain, philosophe et encyclopédiste français.<br/><br/>Diderot marque par sa culture, son esprit critique, sa puissance de travail et un certain génie. Il laisse son empreinte dans l'histoire de tous les genres littéraires auxquels il s'est essayé : il pose les bases du drame bourgeois au théâtre, il révolutionne le roman avec Jacques le Fataliste, il invente la critique à travers ses Salons, il est le maître d'œuvre d'un des ouvrages les plus marquant de son siècle, la célèbre Encyclopédie. En philosophie également, Diderot se démarque en proposant plus de la matière à un raisonnement autonome du lecteur qu'un système complet, fermé et rigide. Rien en fait ne représente mieux le sens de son travail et son originalité que les premiers mots de ses Pensées sur l'interprétation de la nature (1753) :<br/><br/>« Jeune homme, prends et lis. Si tu peux aller jusqu'à la fin de cet ouvrage, tu ne seras pas incapable d'en entendre un meilleur. Comme je me suis moins proposé de t'instruire que de t'exercer, il m'importe peu que tu adoptes mes idées ou que tu les rejettes, pourvu qu'elles emploient toute ton attention. Un plus habile t'apprendra à connaître les forces de la nature; il me suffira de t'avoir fait essayer les tiennes. »<br/>Mal connu de ses contemporains, éloigné des polémiques de son temps et des conventions sociales, mal reçu par la Révolution, il devra attendre la fin du XIXe siècle pour recevoir enfin l'intérêt et la reconnaissance de la postérité dans laquelle il avait placé une partie de ses espoirs.<br/><br/>]]></about>
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    <![CDATA['Your Jacques is a tasteless mishmash of things that happen, some of them true, others made up, written without style and served up like a dog's breakfast.'      Jacques the Fatalist is Diderot's answer to the problem of existence. If human beings are determined by their genes and their environment, how can they claim to be free to want or do anything?  Where are Jacques and his Master going?  Are they simply occupying space, living mechanically until they die, believing erroneously that they are in charge of their Destiny?  Diderot intervenes to cheat our expectations of what fiction should be and do, and behaves like a provocative, ironic and unfailingly entertaining master of revels who finally show why Fate is not to be equated with doom.     In the introduction to this brilliant new translation, David Coward explains the philosophical basis of Diderot's fascination with Fate and shows why Jacques the Fatalist pioneers techniques of fiction which, two centuries on, novelists still regard as experimental.]]>
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    <![CDATA[One of the key figures of the French Enlightenment, Denis Diderot was a passionate critic of conventional morality, society and religion. Among his greatest and most well-known works, these two dialogues are dazzling examples of his radical scientific and philosophical beliefs. In Rameau's Nephew, the eccentric and foolish nephew of the great composer Jean-Philippe Rameau meets Diderot by chance, and the two embark on a hilarious consideration of society, music, literature, politics, morality and philosophy. Its companion-piece, D'Alembert's Dream, outlines a material, atheistic view of the universe, expressed through the fevered dreams of Diderot's friend D'Alembert. Unpublished during his lifetime, both of these powerfully controversial works show Diderot to be one of the most advanced thinkers of his age, and serve as fascinating testament to the philosopher's wayward genius.]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Nun]]>
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    <![CDATA['You can leave a forest, but you can never leave a cloister; you are free in the forest, but you are a slave in the cloister.'  Diderot's The Nun  (La Religieuse)  is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders.  A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural life of the convent.  A succes de scandale  at the end of the eighteenth century, it has attracted and unsettled readers ever since.  For Diderot's novel is not simply a story of a young girl with a bad habit; it is also a powerfully emblematic fable about oppression and intolerance.  This new translation includes Diderot's all-important prefatory material, which he placed, disconcertingly, at the end of the novel, and which turns what otherwise seems like an exercise in realism into what is now regarded as a masterpiece of proto-modernist fiction.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Le Neveu De Rameau]]>
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    <![CDATA[Memoirs of a Nun, which began as a joke and grew into a masterpiece, was one of the loudest salvos fired in the continuing battles between the clergy and the intelligentsia which defined so much of eighteenth-century French history. Diderot's story of a novice held in a convent against her will and forced to undergo curious spiritual and sexual trials displays all the brillliance, icy wit, and worldliness of the Enlightenment at its best.<p>Translated by Francis Birrell with an introduction by P. N. Furbank</p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Paradoxe sur le comédien]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Indiscreet Jewels]]>
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    <![CDATA[classic 1748 erotic prose work, tr Sophie Hawkes ]]>
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  </authors>  <published>1982</published>
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    <![CDATA[Lettre Sur Les Aveugles / Lettre Sur Les Sourds Et Muets]]>
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    <![CDATA[Diderot interroge un aveugle-né pour savoir quelle idée éveille en lui la notion de symétrie ou encore de beauté. Il s'avère que &quot;la beauté pour un aveugle n'est qu'un mot, quand elle est séparée de l'utilité&quot;. Toutes les réponses de l'aveugle paraissent relatives aux seuls sens dont il dispose. Les principales notions de métaphysique et de morale sont également conçues par lui d'après son expérience sensible. Ainsi, il n'y a ni bien ni mal, mais des gens qui guident les aveugles et d'autres qui les volent. <p>Ce dialogue entre un aveugle et un voyant, restitué dans la première partie de la <em>Lettre</em>, a donc pour effet d'incliner le lecteur au relativisme. La seconde partie de l'ouvrage est plus subversive encore, puisque Diderot y soutient l'hypothèse d'un grand désordre universel : ce qui est ici normalité n'est-il pas ailleurs exception ? L'anomalie d'hier ne peut-elle pas devenir la règle de demain ? Diderot, radicalement matérialiste, se laisse ainsi aller sur la pente de l'athéisme et nous entraîne, jusqu'au vertige, dans le tourbillon de sa réflexion. Trop loin, sans doute, pour son époque : la <em>Lettre</em> paraît en juin 1749 ; en juillet, l'ouvrage est censuré et Diderot, emprisonné. <em>--Paul Klein</em> </p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville / Pensées Philosophiques / Lettre sur les Aveugles]]>
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    <![CDATA[Denis Diderot (1713-1784), né à Langres, est un écrivain, philosophe et encyclopédiste français. Diderot fut un des grands animateurs intellectuels du XVIIIe siècle par sa curiosité, sa vaste culture, sa connaissance des langues, son esprit critique et sa force de travail. L’année 1743 marque également le début de la carrière littéraire de Diderot, par le biais de la traduction. Il traduit The Grecian History de Temple Stanyan. En 1745 paraît sa traduction, largement augmentée de ses réflexions personnelles, d’ An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit de Shaftesbury, sous le titre Essai sur le Mérite et la Vertu, premier manifeste du glissement de Diderot de la foi chrétienne vers le déisme, bient‘t confirmé par la publication de sa première oeuvre originale, les Pensées Philosophiques en 1746. De 1746 à 1748, il collabore avec Marc-Antoine Eidous et François-Vincent Toussaint à la traduction du Medicinal Dictionnary de Robert James.]]>
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