Table of Contents

Kate E. Tunstall and Caroline Warman, Opening lines

1. Introduction. From Diderot to Rousseau via Rameau (2005)

I. The Paradoxe sur le comédien
2. The Paradoxe sur le comédien is a paradox (1973)
3. Sensibility and spectacle: the medical context for the Paradoxe (1977)

II. Le Neveu de Rameau
4. Pantomime, spasm and parataxis: Le Neveu de Rameau (1984) 
5. Deictics and dialectics in Le Neveu de Rameau (1992)
6. Lists, parataxis and Le Neveu de Rameau (1995)

III. Causality
7. Jacques le fataliste: the art of the probable (1985)
8. ‘Nexus effectivus’ and ‘nexus finalis’; causality in Rousseau’s Discours sur l’inégalité and the Essai sur l’origine des langues (1992)

IV. Aesthetics
9. Philosophy and Rococo style (2002)
10. Diderot’s Lettre sur les sourds et muets: language and labyrinth (1976)
11. Kant, Rousseau and music (1980)

V. Measurement
12. Architecture, analogy and proportion (1991)
13. How to take the measure of a character (2002)
14. Measuring statues, or, special neutrality (2004)

Bibliography

Index

Reviews

…plus qu’une simple collection d’articles, le volume permet d’apprécier, pour ainsi dire "de haut", la cohérence de la carrière de Marian Hobson, et de prendre la mesure de la considérable contribution qu’elle laisse aux études diderotiennes.
- Recherches sur Diderot et l’Encyclopédie

This is an inspiring volume that has much to teach scholars of the Enlightenment hailing from a broad range of disciplines.
- H-France Review

Written in French, Hobson’s early articles from the 1970s played a major role in the new reading of key Enlightenment texts that emerged in the wake of post-structuralism and in particular the work of Jacques Derrida. It is a pleasure to read them again in Tunstall and Warman;s fine translations. They are as acute and relevant today as ever. […] I would argue that Hobson’s readings exemplify ‘deconstructive’ reading at its best: philosophically rigorous, historically precise, and attuned to the text in all its multifarious affiliations and subcurrents.
- French Studies