Table of Contents: Mara Vamos, Pascal's pensées and the Enlightenment: the roots of a misunderstanding
Preface by Otis Fellows
I. Introduction
II. The Pensées: a forgotten book
III. The serenely unctuous pensées
IV. The riddle of the pensées
V. Order
VI. The omitted thoughts
VII. Structural modifications
VIII. Stylistic modifications
IX. Conclusion
Appendix I. Concordance
Appendix II. List of social and political pensées
Emita B. Hill, The Role of 'le monstre' in Diderot's thought
Part I. Physical monsters in nature
I. The problem of the presence of monsters in nature
II. Monsters and materialism: the early works
III. Monsters and materialism in the Rêve de d'Alembert
Part II. Human nature and the moral monster
IV. In defense of human nature
V. The Neveu de Rameau: a moral monster
Part III. Monsters and the monstrous deed in Diderot's aesthetic theory
VI. The monster in art
Select bibliography