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Book SynopsisTrade Review…plus qu’une simple collection d’articles, le volume permet d’apprécier, pour ainsi dire "de haut", la cohérence de la carrière de Marian Hobson, et de prendre la mesure de la considérable contribution qu’elle laisse aux études diderotiennes.
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Recherches sur Diderot et l’EncyclopédieThis is an inspiring volume that has much to teach scholars of the Enlightenment hailing from a broad range of disciplines.
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H-France ReviewWritten in French, Hobson’s early articles from the 1970s played a major role in the new reading of key Enlightenment texts that emerged in the wake of post-structuralism and in particular the work of Jacques Derrida. It is a pleasure to read them again in Tunstall and Warman;s fine translations. They are as acute and relevant today as ever. […] I would argue that Hobson’s readings exemplify ‘deconstructive’ reading at its best: philosophically rigorous, historically precise, and attuned to the text in all its multifarious affiliations and subcurrents.
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French StudiesTable of ContentsKate E. Tunstall
and Caroline Warman, Opening lines
1. Introduction. From Diderot to Rousseau via Rameau (2005)
I. The Paradoxe sur le comédien2. The
Paradoxe sur le comédien is a paradox (1973)
3. Sensibility and spectacle: the medical context for the
Paradoxe (1977)
II. Le Neveu de Rameau4. Pantomime, spasm and parataxis:
Le Neveu de Rameau (1984)
5. Deictics and dialectics in
Le Neveu de Rameau (1992)
6. Lists, parataxis and
Le Neveu de Rameau (1995)
III. Causality7.
Jacques le fataliste: the art of the probable (1985)
8. ‘Nexus effectivus’ and ‘nexus finalis’; causality in Rousseau’s
Discours sur l’inégalité and the
Essai sur l’origine des langues (1992)
IV. Aesthetics9. Philosophy and Rococo style (2002)
10. Diderot’s
Lettre sur les sourds et muets: language and labyrinth (1976)
11. Kant, Rousseau and music (1980)
V. Measurement12. Architecture, analogy and proportion (1991)
13. How to take the measure of a character (2002)
14. Measuring statues, or, special neutrality (2004)
Bibliography
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