Rameau's Nephew (collected Works of Diderot)
by H
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A representative work of philosophy by French Enlightenment thinkers, a must-read classic. Diderot is known as the "standard bearer of the Enlightenment philosophers" and his works have influenced ideological trends for hundreds of years. The pinnacle of Diderot's philosophical novels and a masterpiece of dialectics. "The Nephew of Rameau" is the second volume of the "Collected Works of Diderot", which includes "The Nephew of Rameau" and "This is Not a Story". "The Nephew of Rameau" is a dialogue-length philosophical novel written between 1761 and 1762, but was not published during the author's lifetime. In 1805, Goethe translated it into Germany, but it was not until 1823 that Lameaux's Nephew, compiled from Diderot's own manuscript, was first published in France. "Ramaou's Nephew" is as much a conversation as it is a debate. On one side of the conversation "I" is a philosopher who represents universal values, and on the other side is the nephew of the musician Rameau, a poor young man. The two met in a cafe and started chatting. The argument became more and more intense. Their words were full of laughter, curses, ridicule and speculation. Engels praised him as a "masterpiece of dialectics". "This is Not a Story" is a short story published in "Literary Letters" in 1773, telling two short love stories.
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