Regimes of description : in the archive of the eighteenth century /
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Stanford, Calif.:
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2005
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Table of Contents:
- 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 / Jurgen Trabant
- Between political arithmetic and political economy / Mary Poovey
- Problems of description in art : realism / Wolfgang Klein
- Imagining flowers : perceptual mimesis (particularly delphinium) / Elaine Scarry
- Not seeing the Laocoon : Lessing in the archive of the eighteenth century / Wolfgang Ernst
- Disparities between part and whole in the description of works of art / Alex Potts
- Between mechanism and romantic Naturphilosophie : vitalizing nature and natualizing 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.