Voltaire's Bastards

Abstract

Intro -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Twenty Years On -- Part I: Argument -- Chapter 1: In Which the Narrator Positions Himself -- Chapter 2: The Theology of Power -- Chapter 3: The Rise of Reason -- Chapter 4: The Rational Courtesan -- Chapter 5: Voltaire's Children -- Chapter 6: The Flowering of Armaments -- Part II: Scenes From a System that Doesn't Work -- Chapter 7: The Question of Killing -- Chapter 8: Learning How to Organize Death -- Chapter 9: Persistent Continuity at the Heart of Power -- Chapter 10: In the Service of the Greater Self -- Chapter 11: Three Short Excursions into the Unreasonable -- Chapter 12: The Art of the Secret -- Chapter 13: The Secretive Knight -- Chapter 14: Of Princes and Heroes -- Chapter 15: The Hero and the Politics of Immortality -- Chapter 16: The Hijacking of Capitalism -- Chapter 17: The Miracle of the Loaves -- Part III: Surviving in Fantasy Land The Individual in the World of Reason -- Chapter 18: Images of Immortality or The Victory of Idolatry -- Chapter 19: Life in a Box - Specialization and the Individual -- Chapter 20: The Stars -- Chapter 21: The Faithful Witness -- Chapter 22: The Virtue of Doubt -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Notes -- Index -- Copyright.