Regimes of Description: In the Archive of the Eighteenth Century

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Contents Contributors 000 Introduction 000 john bender and michael marrinan Part One Description: Fantasies of General Knowledge Description by Omission: Nature Enlightened and Obscured 000 lorraine daston Nature's Unruly Body: The Limit of Scientific Description 000 londa schiebinger Mithridates in Paradise, or Describing Languages in a Universalist World 000 jurgen trabant Between Political Arithmetic and Political Economy 000 mary poovey Part Two Describing: Imagination and Knowing Problems of Description in Art: Realism 000 wolfgang klein Imagining Flowers: Perceptual Mimesis (Particularly Delphinium) 000 elaine scarry Not Seeing Laocoon: Lessing in the Archive of the Eighteenth Century 000 wolfgang ernst Disparities between Part and Whole in the Description of Works of Art 000 alex potts Part Three The Undescribed: Horizons of the Known Between Mechanism and Romantic Naturphilosophie: Vitalizing Nature and Naturalizing Historical Discourse in the Late Enlightenment 000 peter reill Transparency and Utopia: Constructing the Void from Pascal to Foucault 000 tony vidler Aesthetic Media: The Structure of Aesthetic Theory before Kant 000 david e. wellbery Works Consulted Appendix Index Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Description (Philosophy)Aesthetics

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