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(1991) Dialogue and technology, Dordrecht, Springer.
Diderot's body of writings — including his translation of Shaftesbury, his biography of Seneca and his dialogues — is described as a persistent search for the vital interlocutor, for that other who might stimulate his imagination and onto whom he could project his ideas. To Diderot the dialogue was far more than a narrative strategy or a component of rhetorical technique: he had an aversion to literary speech limited to a single voice. None of his writing is farther removed from monologue than Rameau's Nephew, and it belongs to the dimension of the ambiguous, the uncertain and the paradoxical. If offers a world where new questions are generated and where isolated thought is changed into genuine dialogue.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-1731-5_17
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Josephs, H. (1991)., Rameau's nephew: a dialogue for the enlightenment, in B. Göranzon & M. Florin (eds.), Dialogue and technology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 147-151.
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