Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: An Ethics of the Unruly
1. Montaigne: The Accidental Theorist
2. Diderot’s Rameau’s Nephew: Allegory and the Mind-and-Body Problem
3. Translating Modernité: Narrative, Violence, and Aesthetics in Baudelaire’s Spleen of Paris
4. Living with Nausea: Sartre and Roquentin
5. Intoxicating Meaning: Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Jealousy
6. Fidelity to Sexual Difference: Marguerite Duras’s The Ravishing of Lol Stein
Conclusion: Unruly Theory
Notes
Works Cited
Index