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
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