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Miscellany/Mélanges
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Miscellany/Mélanges
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Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cover | 1 | |
| Half Title | 2 | |
| Copyright Page | 3 | |
| Title Page | 4 | |
| Copyright Page | 5 | |
| Contents | 6 | |
| Pascal’s pensees and the Enlightenment: the roots of a misunderstanding | 8 | |
| Preface | 10 | |
| I. Introduction | 18 | |
| II. The Pensées: a forgotten book | 26 | |
| III. The serenely unctuous pensées | 37 | |
| IV. The riddle of the pensées | 49 | |
| V. Order | 53 | |
| VI. The omitted thoughts | 64 | |
| VII. Structural modifications | 81 | |
| VIII. Stylistic modifications | 87 | |
| IX. Conclusion | 111 | |
| Appendix I. Concordance | 115 | |
| Appendix II. List of social and political pensées | 145 | |
| The Role of ‘le monstre’ in Diderot’s thought | 148 | |
| Part I. Physical monsters in nature | 154 | |
| I. The problem of the presence of monsters in nature | 154 | |
| II. Monsters and materialism: the early work | 171 | |
| Ill. Monsters and materialism in the Rêve de d'Alembert | 183 | |
| Part II. Human nature and the moral monster | 201 | |
| IV. In defense of human nature | 201 | |
| V. The Neveu de Rameau: a moral monster | 224 | |
| Part III. Monsters and the monstrous deed in Diderot’s aesthetic theory | 243 | |
| VI. The monster in art | 243 | |
| Select bibliography | 260 |