Editors' Preface: Victor Cousin, Eclectic Philosophy and its Legacies, Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Daniel WhistlerNote on Editions, Abbreviations, and TranslationsPart One: Introductions1. Cousin and French Philosophy, Delphine Antoine-Mahut2. Cousin and the Politics of Philosophy, Félix Barancy and Sarah Bernard-Granger3. Cousin and the History of Philosophy, Pierre-François Moreau4. Cousin and the Eighteenth Century, Lucie Rey5. Cousin and the Problem of Metaphysics, Daniel WhistlerPart Two: TextsThe Three Prefaces6. Preface to the 1826 Edition of Philosophical Fragments7. Preface to the 1833 Edition of Philosophical Fragments8.

Prefatory Note to the 1838 Edition of Philosophical Fragments1816-18189. On the Moral Law and Freedom10. On the True Meaning of the cogito, ergo sum11. Attempt at a Classification of Philosophical Questions and Schools12. On the Fact of Consciousness13. On the Clear and the Obscure in Knowledge, or On Spontaneity and Reflection14. On Real Beauty and Ideal Beauty1826-183015. The True Beginning of the History of Philosophy16.

Plato: Language of the Theory of Ideas17. Plato18. Prefatory Note to New Philosophical Fragments19. Preface to the Translation of Tennemann's Manual of the History of Philosophy20. From Review of Reiffenberg's On EclecticismAfter 183321. Introduction to the Posthumous Works of Maine de Biran22. From Abelard23. From Foreword to On Pascal's Pensées24.

Foreword to Fragments of Cartesian PhilosophyAppendix: Two Edicts Issued by the Royal Council of Public Education.