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Author: Joanna Stalnaker
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0801448646

The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia

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. Download The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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 habit Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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