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d'Alembert's Dream (or The Dream of d'Alembert, French: Le Rêve de d'Alembert) is an ensemble of three philosophical dialogues authored by Denis Diderot in 1769, which first anonymously appeared in the Correspondance littéraire, philosophique et critique between August and November 1782, but was not published in its own right until ...
D'Alembert's Dream. Speakers: D'Alembert, Mademoiselle de L'Espinasse, Doctor Bordeu, A Servant. cene is in D'Alembert's bedroom. D'Alembert is sleeping . n a bed with curtains around it. Doctor Bordeu and Mademoiselle de L'Es. ht, then, . E DE L'ESPINASSE: I'm afraid so. He's had a very disturbe. BORDEU: Has he woken up?
The second, ‘Le Rêve de d'Alembert’ (‘D'Alembert's Dream’), set in d'Alembert 's bedroom, is, by contrast, formally much more complex and involves Mlle de Lespinasse reading out to the doctor, Bordeu, her transcription of what the geometer had been saying in his sleep, and the doctor interpreting and amplifying d'Alembert 's sleep-talk ...
The often rambling conversation pokes fun at numerous prominent figures of the time. In the prologue that precedes the conversation, the first-person narrator frames Lui as eccentric and extravagant, full of contradictions, "a mixture of the sublime and the base, of good sense and irrationality".
- Denis Diderot
- 1805
D’Alembert’s Dream is a more strictly philosophical exercise, detailing Diderot’s materialistic theory of biology. His main contention is that all matter is sensitive, or at least potentially sensitive, and thus no mind or soul is needed to explain life, movement, memory, sensation, or thought.
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Rameau’s Nephew and D’Alembert’s Dream are dazzling exposés of Diderot’s radical scientific and philosophical thinking.
Title: D'Alembert's Dream. Author: Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784. Translator: Johnston, Ian (Ian Courtenay), 1938-. Link: HTML in Canada.
