Diderot's part / Andrew H. Clark.

Author/creator Clark, Andrew Herrick, 1973-
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, ©2008.
Descriptionvi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Repetition and difference in Le fils naturel -- The limits of contradiction -- The problem of contradiction -- Diderot's "contradictions" -- Textual assemblages I: repetition, the part and whole, the tableau and the spectator -- Textual assemblages II: identity, repetition, and difference -- Autonomous fibers and secreting organs -- Difference in a continuous spectrum -- Sensibility and irritability: the movement of the whole and the parts -- Whytt and Brown and the dynamic whole -- Continuity and the in-between -- Organicism and generation -- The fiber: movement and assemblage -- The poetics of order -- The concept of order -- The concept of natural virtue and the virtuous work of art -- The concept of social activity and communication -- Pre-representation: the "movement image," duration, and involuntary movement -- The instant -- Conclusion -- The figure of dissonance -- The Bouffon debate: metaphysics, human passion, anthropology, and the limits of science -- Leçons de clavecin--a pedagogy of dissonance -- Dissonance as a musical figure -- Sound empiricism? dissonance vs. dialectic -- Dissonance as poetic figure -- La religieuse--dissonance as musical, somatic, and poetic figure -- Rêve de d'Alembert--dissonance as poetic and physiological figure -- Le Neveu de Rameau--dissonance as musical, poetic, and physiological figure -- Conclusion.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [207]-217) and index.
LCCN 2007046659
ISBN9780754654384 (alk. paper)
ISBN0754654389 (alk. paper)