‘Ah! Si vous pouviez lire au fond de mon coeur...’: Diderot et le mythe de l’intériorite´
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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.
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‘Ah! Si vous pouviez lire au fond de mon
coeur...’: Diderot et le mythe de l’intériorite´
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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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QU'EST-CE QUE LES LUMIÈRES?; LA RECONNAISSANCE AU DIX-HUITIÈME SIÈCLE; HISTORY OF ART; HISTORY OF IDEAS
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Voltaire Foundation
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978-0-7294-0886-8