Book, Diderot works 4 Jacques, the fatalist, and his master[LS]

A vivid story, full of playfulness in which Diderot commits himself with his energy and brilliance, Jacques, the Fatalist, and his Master weaves, under the invisible hand of the creator, a set of satirical games of recreations of ideas, relationships and types to be constitute a critical reflection on time, the atmosphere and society on the eve of the Enlightenment and, projectively, in what is conventionally called 'modern times'. It shows the intellectual, the artist and the philosopher in his role as a transgressor of order, in opposition to those who rule and legislate, his movement towards the public, a disconcerting didacticism and a seductive game that subverts the hierarchy between subject and servant, as J points out. Guinsburg, 'in a commitment from which he cannot separate himself'. The seduction game of art? In his didacticism, Diderot threatens sects and naive criticism, which cannot capture the richness of plagiarism, recreates, translates, borrows and returns with his satirical verve ideas from a Sterne or a Voltaire. He has a perception that distances him from the technical, from imitation and pursues a subjectivity of another type, in an order that bears the mark of Chance as a beautiful protagonist, in a dialogical novel that does not start from the alleged originality, but from the enormous effort to expand what already it is given. In his criticism of religion, the creator also criticizes a supposed scientific anchoring, he turns to the uncertain, to the chaos of nature, something that would be very appropriate to think about today.