Eyal Peretz is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the author of Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses.

• PrefaceIntroduction to the "Age of Diderot"Part I. Diderot and the Problem of Metaphysics—D’Alembert’s Dream 1. Life’s Drama2. Who Speaks?: Between Dreaming and Waking3. Two Images of the Image: The Bees and the SpiderPart II. Three Short Experiments 4. The Identification with the Phantom: The Paradox of the Actor5. Enlightenment’s Pain: On Diderot’s Dramatic Logic of the Senses—Letter on the Blind6. The Drama of Inheritance and the Question of Revolution: A Conversation of a Father with His ChildrenConclusion: Diderot, Rousseau—The Self-Portrait of ModernityNotesIndex

Eyal Peretz is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the author of Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses.

• PrefaceIntroduction to the "Age of Diderot"Part I. Diderot and the Problem of Metaphysics—D’Alembert’s Dream 1. Life’s Drama2. Who Speaks?: Between Dreaming and Waking3. Two Images of the Image: The Bees and the SpiderPart II. Three Short Experiments 4. The Identification with the Phantom: The Paradox of the Actor5. Enlightenment’s Pain: On Diderot’s Dramatic Logic of the Senses—Letter on the Blind6. The Drama of Inheritance and the Question of Revolution: A Conversation of a Father with His ChildrenConclusion: Diderot, Rousseau—The Self-Portrait of ModernityNotesIndex

Eyal Peretz is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University Bloomington. He is the author of Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses.

• PrefaceIntroduction to the "Age of Diderot"Part I. Diderot and the Problem of Metaphysics—D’Alembert’s Dream 1. Life’s Drama2. Who Speaks?: Between Dreaming and Waking3. Two Images of the Image: The Bees and the SpiderPart II. Three Short Experiments 4. The Identification with the Phantom: The Paradox of the Actor5. Enlightenment’s Pain: On Diderot’s Dramatic Logic of the Senses—Letter on the Blind6. The Drama of Inheritance and the Question of Revolution: A Conversation of a Father with His ChildrenConclusion: Diderot, Rousseau—The Self-Portrait of ModernityNotesIndex