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dc.contributor.author | Stalnaker, Joanna | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-12-26T02:55:30Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-12-26T02:55:30Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isbn | 0801448646 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-0-8014-4864-5 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9780801462344 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isbn | 0801462347 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | HPU4161826 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://lib.hpu.edu.vn/handle/123456789/28589 | - |
dc.description.abstract | 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, and urban topographies, the book uncovers the deep epistemological and literary tensions that made description a central preoccupation for authors such as Buffon, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Diderot, Delille, and Mercier. Stalnaker argues that Enlightenment description was the site of competing truth claims that would eventually resolve themselves in the modern polarity between literature and science. By the mid-nineteenth century, the now habitual association between description and the novel was already firmly anchored in French culture, but just a century earlier, in the diverse network of articles on description in Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie and in the works derived from it, there was not a single mention of the novel. Instead, we find articles on description in natural history, geometry, belles-lettres, and poetry. Stalnaker builds on the premise that the tendency to view description as the inevitable (and subservient) partner of narration--rather than as a universal tool for making sense of knowledge in all fields--has obscured the central place of description in Enlightenment discourse. As a result, we have neglected some of the most original and experimental works of the eighteenth century. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 240 p. | en_US |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Cornell University Press | en_US |
dc.subject | Enlightenment | en_US |
dc.subject | Encyclopedia | en_US |
dc.subject | Age of the encyclopedia | en_US |
dc.title | The unfinished Enlightenment: description in the age of the encyclopedia | en_US |
dc.type | Book | en_US |
dc.size | 5.26Mb | en_US |
dc.department | Sociology | en_US |
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