Acknowledgments | p. vii |
Raymond Aron and the Power of Ideas | p. 3 |
Plutarch and the Issue of Character | p. 18 |
"Strange Seriousness": Discovering Daumier | p. 37 |
Walter Bagehot: The Greatest Victorian | p. 52 |
What's Left of Descartes? | p. 81 |
Schiller's "Education" | p. 101 |
The Difficulty With Hegel | p. 119 |
Schopenhauer's Worlds | p. 140 |
What Did Kierkegaard Want? | p. 156 |
George Santayana | p. 178 |
Wittgenstein: The Philosophical Porcupine | p. 201 |
Bertrand Russell: Apostle of Disillusionment | p. 222 |
Who Was David Stove? | p. 246 |
Tocqueville Today | p. 275 |
Anthony Trollope: A Novelist Who Hunted the Fox | p. 293 |
G. C. Lichtenberg: A "Spy on Humanity" | p. 316 |
The Genius of Wodehouse | p. 330 |
The Mystery of Charles Peguy | p. 353 |
Index | p. 367 |
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