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Recent Publication
| Congratulations to Professor Joanna Stalnaker on the publication of her new book: "The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia" (Cornell University Press, 2010). 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. |
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