Rameau's nephew
Subtitle: and D'Alembert's dream.
By: Translated with introductions by L. W. Tancock.
Contributors: Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Harmondsworth
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Alembert, Jean Le Rond d', 1717-1783
Other titles: D'Alembert's dream.
Description: One of the key figures of the French Enlightenment, Denis Diderot was a critic of conventional morality, society, and religion. Among his most well-known works, these two dialogues are 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.
Notes: Translation of Le neveu de Rameau and Le rêve de d'Alembert.