I. Ugliness in the classical world. 1. A world dominated by beauty? ; 2. The Greek world and horror
II. Passion, death, martyrdom. 1. The "pancalistic" view of the universe ; 2. The suffering of Christ ; 3. Martyrs, hermits, penitents ; 4. The triumph of death
III. The apocalypse, hell, and the devil. 1. A universe of horrors ; 2. Hell ; 3. The metamorphoses of the devil
IV. Monsters and portents. 1. Prodigies and monsters ; 2. An aesthetic of the immeasurable ; 3. The moralization of monsters ; 4. The Mirabilia ; 5. The fate of monsters
V. The ugly, the comic, and the obscene. 1. Priapus ; 2. Satires on the peasantry and carnival festivities ; 3. Renaissance and liberation ; 4. Caricature
VI. The ugliness of woman from antiquity to the baroque period. 1. The anti-female tradition ; 2. Mannerism and the baroque
VII. The devil in the modern world. 1. From rebellious Satan to poor Mephistopheles ; 2. The demonstration of the enemy
VIII. Witchcraft, satanism, sadism. 1. Witches ; 2. Satanism, sadism, and the taste for cruelty
IX. Physica curiosa. 1. Lunar births and disembowelled corpses ; 2. Physiognomy
X. Romanticism and the redemption of ugliness. 1. The philosophies of ugliness ; 2. The ugly and the damned ; 3. The ugly and the unhappy ; 4. The unhappy and the ill
XII. Iron towers and ivory towers. 1. Industrial ugliness ; 2. Decadentism and the licentiousness and the ugly
XIII. The avant-garde and the triumph of ugliness
XIV. The ugliness of others, kitsch, and camp. 1. The ugliness of others ; 2. Kitsch ; 3. Camp
