Beliefs (assommons les pauvres!)
Homo duplex
More duplexities
Maistre
Proudhon's spirits of contradiction
Splitting the difference: the poem
Appendix: "assommons les pauvres!"
Seeing (a une passante)
The will to know
Images and afterimages: the poem
Certainty
Scopic syllepsis
Which is the real one?
Optical gaps
Energy: the baroque
Appendix: "a une passante"
Money (la chambre double)
Expenditure
Words pay no debts
Depletion: the poem
Reversibility
Which room is counterfeit?
The other side of the coin
Appendix: "la chambre double"
Time (harmonie du soir)
God, graves, and scholars
In memory of the present
Angels doing time
Harmonics: the poem
And time and the world are ever in flight
Appendix: "harmonie du soir."
Seeing double : Baudelaire's modernity by Françoise Meltzer. ISBN 9780226519883. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.