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Table of contents :
Introduction
I. VIOLENCE
1. The First World War
2. The Best of Times
3. The Cause of War
II. REASON
4. Relativism—A Fish Story
5. The Dangerous Discipline
6. Necessary Nature
7. Disgusting, No?
8. Majestic Ascent: Darwin on Trial
9. Memories of Ulaanbaatar
10. Inn Keepers
III. FALL
11. The Social Set
12. Godzooks
IV. PERSONALITIES
13. A Flower of Chivalry
14. Giuseppe Peano
15. Sonja Kovalevsky
16. A Logician’s Life
17. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
V. LANGUAGE
18. The Recovery of Case
VI. PLACE
19. Prague, 1998
20. Old Hose
21. Vienna, 1981
VII. INTERVIEWS
22. A Conversation with Le Figaro
23. A Conversation with Evolution News
Endnotes
Credits
Index