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Jacques the Fatalist (Oxford World's Classics) Book
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Jacques the Fatalist : Paperback : Oxford University Press : 9780199537952 : 019953795X : 31 Aug 2009 : Jacques the Fatalist is Diderot's answer to the problem of existence. 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? 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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'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? Diderot intervenes to cheat our expectations of what...
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Denis Diderot, David Coward (Editor)
- 019953795X
- 9780199537952
- Denis Diderot
- 13 November 2008
- Oxford Paperbacks
- Paperback (Book)
- 304
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