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The Unfinished Enlightenment : Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (259 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801462344
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Unfinished EnlightenmentDDC classification:
  • 840.9/005
LOC classification:
  • PQ265 -- .S72 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- THE UNFINISHED ENLIGHTENMENT -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Natural Histories -- 1. Buffon and Daubenton's Two Horses -- 2. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Strawberry Plant -- Part II: Encyclopedias -- 3. Diderot's Word Machine -- 4. Delille's Little Encyclopedia -- Part III: Moral and Political Topographies -- 5. Mercier's Unframed Paris -- 6. Description in Revolution -- Conclusion: Virtual Encyclopedias -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- THE UNFINISHED ENLIGHTENMENT -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Natural Histories -- 1. Buffon and Daubenton's Two Horses -- 2. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Strawberry Plant -- Part II: Encyclopedias -- 3. Diderot's Word Machine -- 4. Delille's Little Encyclopedia -- Part III: Moral and Political Topographies -- 5. Mercier's Unframed Paris -- 6. Description in Revolution -- Conclusion: Virtual Encyclopedias -- Bibliography -- Index.

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.

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