附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-231) and index.
Part 1: Shelley and philosophical skepticism -- Skeptical methodology -- The concept of probability -- The problem of external objects and the concept of cause -- The epistemological circle and the criterion of truth -- Descartes and the criterion of truth -- Drummond's critique of Descartes: the argument of relativity and the criterion of truth -- Universal consent, facticity, and nominalization -- Shelley, Drummond, and the concept of power -- Sign theory: Berkeley, Drummond, Shelley, and skeptical tradition -- Thomas Reid: common sense, conventional assent, and political power -- Part 2: Shelley and historical dialectic -- Shelley, Marx, and cultural context -- The dialectics of skepticism and Marxism -- Marx, Engels, Hegel, and the absolute idea -- Dialectic and negative dogma -- X is Y, unless it is not -- Ideology, superstructure, and determinism -- Part 3: Shelley's philosophical prose -- Politics and Shelley's philosophical project -- Imagination and morals -- Shelley and reform -- Shelley and the Examiner -- A philosophical view of reform, Chapter I -- A philosophical view of reform, Chapter II -- A philosophical view of reform, Chapter III.
