Diderot's part
By: Andrew H. Clark.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780754654384
Subjects: Diderot, Denis, -- 1713-1784 -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-217) and index.
Table of contents: title: Repetition and difference in Le fils naturel; title: The limits of contradiction; title: The problem of contradiction; title: Diderot's "contradictions"; title: Textual assemblages I: repetition, the part and whole, the tableau and the spectator; title: Textual assemblages II: identity, repetition, and difference; title: Autonomous fibers and secreting organs; title: Difference in a continuous spectrum; title: Sensibility and irritability: the movement of the whole and the parts; title: Whytt and Brown and the dynamic whole; title: Continuity and the in-between; title: Organicism and generation; title: The fiber: movement and assemblage; title: The poetics of order; title: The concept of order; title: The concept of natural virtue and the virtuous work of art; title: The concept of social activity and communication; title: Pre-representation: the "movement image," duration, and involuntary movement; title: The instant; title: Conclusion; title: The figure of dissonance; title: The Bouffon debate: metaphysics, human passion, anthropology, and the limits of science; title: Leçons de clavecin; title: a pedagogy of dissonance; title: Dissonance as a musical figure; title: Sound empiricism? dissonance vs. dialectic; title: Dissonance as poetic figure; title: La religieuse; title: dissonance as musical, somatic, and poetic figure; title: Rêve de d'Alembert; title: dissonance as poetic and physiological figure; title: Le Neveu de Rameau; title: dissonance as musical, poetic, and physiological figure; title: Conclusion.