Regimes of description : in the archive of the eighteenth century /
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-283) and index. Contents: Lorraine Daston: Description by omission: nature enlightened and obscured. 11-24. - Londa Schiebinger: The limits of scientific description. 25-43. - Jürgen Trabant: Mithridates in paradise: describing languages in a universalis...
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description | Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-283) and index. Contents: Lorraine Daston: Description by omission: nature enlightened and obscured. 11-24. - Londa Schiebinger: The limits of scientific description. 25-43. - Jürgen Trabant: Mithridates in paradise: describing languages in a universalistic world. 44-60. - Mary Poovey: Between political arithmetic and political economy. 61-76. - Wolfgang Klein: Problems of description in art: realism. 79-94. - Elaine Scarry: Imagining flowers: perceptual mimesis (particularly Delphinium). 95-119. - Wolfgang Ernst: Not seeing the Laocoön: Lessing in the archive of the eighteen century. 118-134. - Alex Potts: Disparities between part and whole in the description of works of art. 135-150. - Peter Hanns Reill: Between mechanism and romantic Naturphilosophie. Vitalizing nature and naturalizing historical discourse in the late enlightement. 153-174. - Anthony Vidler: Transparency and utopia: constructing the void from Pascal to Foucault. 175-198. - David E. Wellbery: Aesthetic media: the structure of aesthetic theory before Kant. 199-211. |
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spellingShingle | Regimes of description : in the archive of the eighteenth century / edited by John Bender and Michael Marrinan. [Description (Philosophy), Aesthetics] |
title | Regimes of description : in the archive of the eighteenth century / |
topic | [Description (Philosophy), Aesthetics] |
url | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:709c883f-4bdd-47d9-8616-665863df332f |