Table of Contents for Regimes of Description
Regimes of Description
In the Archive of the Eighteenth Century
Edited by John Bender and Michael Marrinan
Introduction
John Bender and Michael Marrinan
Description: Fantasies of General Knowledge
Description by Omission: Nature Enlightened and Obscured
Lorraine Daston
Nature's Unruly Body: The Limits of Scientific Description
Londa Schiebinger
Mithridates in Paradise: Describing Languages in a Universalistic World
Jürgen Trabant
Between Political Arithmetic and Political Economy
Mary Poovey
Describing: Imagination and Knowing
Problems of Description in Art: Realism
Wolfgang Klein
Imagining Flowers: Perceptual Mimesis (Particularly Delphinium)
Elaine Scarry
Not Seeing the Laocoön: Lessing in the Archive of the Eighteenth Century
Wolfgang Ernst
Disparities between Part and Whole in the Description of Works of Art
Alex Potts
The Undescribed: Horizons of the Known
Between Mechanism and Romantic Naturphilosophie: Vitalizing Nature and Naturalizing Historical Discourse in the Late Enlightenment
Peter Hanns Reill
Transparency and Utopia: Constructing the Void from Pascal to Foucault
Anthony Vidler
Aesthetic Media: The Structure of Aesthetic Theory before Kant
David E. Wellbery