I. The Disassociation of Ideas
II. Glory and the Idea of Immortality
III. Success and the Idea of Beauty
IV. The Value of Education
V. Women and Language
VI. Stéphane Mallarmé and the Idea of Decadence
VII. Of Style or Writing
VIII. Subconscious Creation
IX. The Roots of Idealism
Note.--The first, sixth, seventh, and eighth
essays are translated from La Culture des
Idées; the ninth is from the Promenades
Philosophiques; and the remaining essays are
from Le Chemin de Velours.