‘Ah! Si vous pouviez lire au fond de mon coeur...’: Diderot et le mythe de l’intériorite´

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Authors
Tonneau, O
Publication Date
2006
Journal Title
QU'EST-CE QUE LES LUMIÈRES?; LA RECONNAISSANCE AU DIX-HUITIÈME SIÈCLE; HISTORY OF ART; HISTORY OF IDEAS
ISBN
978-0-7294-0886-8
Publisher
Voltaire Foundation
Volume
2006:12
Pages
291-298
Type
Book chapter
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Tonneau, O. (2006). ‘Ah! Si vous pouviez lire au fond de mon coeur...’: Diderot et le mythe de l’intériorite´. Voltaire Foundation, QU'EST-CE QUE LES LUMIÈRES?; LA RECONNAISSANCE AU DIX-HUITIÈME SIÈCLE; HISTORY OF ART; HISTORY OF IDEAS. [Book chapter]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.39978
Abstract
Following Locke, most eighteenth-century scholars conceive of the mind as a space filled with ideas which can be known by introspection. Diderot puts to the test this "myth of interiority" in Jacques le Fataliste, showing that self-knowledge, like knowledge of the external world, is based on imagination and speculation.
Keywords
French literature, 1700-1799, Diderot, Denis(1713-1784), 0000 0001 2133 370X, fiction, philosophical fiction, <i>Jacques le fataliste</i>(1796), <i>Jack the Fatalist and His Master</i>, self-knowledge, interiority, mind, space, myth
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.39978
This record's DOI: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.39978
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