Jacques the Fatalist and His Master

by Denis Diderot, Michael Henry (Translator), Martin Hall (Introduction), Martin Hall (Noted by)

Overview

The world of Jacques is not a fixed and settled one where events are easily assessed and interpreted; on the contrary, it is a world of dizzying variety and unpredictability. For nothing is quite as it seems and an alarming proliferation of anecdotes, characters and philosophical problems continues to spring up around the apparently central theme of the relationship between Jacques and his master, in a skilled and devastating assault on the supremacy of the stylized novel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780140444728
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/06/1986
Series:	Penguin Classics Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	802,022
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Denis Diderot was born at Langres in eastern France in 1713. After graduating in Paris in 1732, he was nominally a law student for ten years, but was actually leading a precarious bohemian but studious existence. In the early 1740s he met three contemporaries who were of great significance to him and to the age: a'Alembert, Condillac and Rousseau, who assisted Diderot in the compilation of the Encyclopedie, which he worked on until its completion in 1773. Interested in the mind-body dichotomy, his work was a bold mixture of science and philosophy. He died in 1784. Translated by Michael Henry with an introduction and notes by Martin Hall

Table of Contents

	Introduction	7
	Jacques the Fatalist	19
	Notes	255