Introduction to eighteenth-century philosophic writing / Robert Ginsberg -- Rousseau's two discourses: the philosopher as rhetorician / Lester G. Crocker -- Philosopher as essayist: Leibniz and Kant / John A. McCarthy -- Style of Kant's critique of reason / Stephen F. Barker -- Herder's craft of communication / Wulf Koepke -- Reading philosophical poetry: a hermeneutics of metaphor for Pope's Essay on man / Harry M. Solomon -- Style as philosophical structure: the contexts of Shaftesbury's Characteristicks / Robert Markley -- "A philosophic wanton": language and authority in Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the rights of woman / Laurie A. Finke -- "Ardor of youth": the manner of Hume's Treatise / Donald T. Siebert -- Literary structure and strategy of Hume's essay on the standard of taste / Robert Ginsberg.