The unfinished Enlightenment : description in the age of the encyclopedia / Joanna Stalnaker.

In The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world. Through a series of readings of natural histories, encyclopedias, scientific poetry...

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Main Author: Stalnaker, Joanna
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Buffon and Daubenton's two horses
  • Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's strawberry plant
  • Diderot's word machine
  • Delille's little encyclopedia
  • Mercier's unframed Paris
  • Description in revolution
  • Conclusion : virtual encyclopedias.