Denis Diderot's 'Rameau's Nephew' A Multi-media Edition

• 1. Verfasser: Diderot, Denis (auth)
• Weitere Verfasser: Hobson, Marian (auth), Tunstall, Kate E. (auth), Warman, Caroline (auth), Duc, Pascal (auth)
• Format: Elektronisch Buchkapitel
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlicht: Open Book Publishers 2014
• Schlagworte: Music; Opera; Philosophy
• Online-Zugang: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In a famous Parisian chess café, a down-and-out, HIM, accosts a former acquaintance, ME, who has made good, more or less. They talk about chess, about genius, about good and evil, about music, they gossip about the society in which they move, one of extreme inequality, of corruption, of envy, and a...