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" This is enlightenment / "
edited by Clifford Siskin & William Warner.
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BL
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963570
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b717940
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This is enlightenment /\ edited by Clifford Siskin William Warner.
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Chicago ;London :: University of Chicago Press,, 2010.
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1 online resource (xii, 505 pages) :: illustrations
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0226761460
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0226761479
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0226761487
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9780226761473
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9780226761480
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This is enlightenment: an invitation in the form of an argument / Clifford Siskin and William Warner -- Enlightening mediation / John Guillory -- Where were the media before the media? Mediating the world at the time of Condillac and Linnaeus / Knut Ove Eliassen and Yngve Sandhei Jacobsen -- Mediation and the division of labor / Peter De Bolla -- Transmitting liberty: the Boston committee of correspondence's revolutionary experiments in enlightenment mediation / William Warner -- Modes and codes: Samuel F.B. Morse and the question of electronic writing / Lisa Gitelman -- Mediating information, 1450-1800 / Ann Blair and Peter Stallybrass -- Mediated enlightenment: the system of the world / Clifford Siskin -- Romanticism, enlightenment, and mediation: the case of the inner stranger / Robert Miles -- The present of enlightenment: temporality and mediation in Kant, Foucault, and Jean Paul / Helge Jordheim -- The strange light of postcolonial enlightenment: mediatic form and publicity in India / Arvind Rajagopal -- Mediating media past and present: toward a genealogy of "print culture" and "oral tradition" / Paula McDowell -- Mediating antiquarians in Britain, 1760-1830: the invention of oral tradition, or, close reading before Coleridge / Maureen McLane -- Mediating le philosophe: Diderot's strategic self-representations / Anne Fastrup -- Novel knowledge: judgment, experience, experiment / John Bender -- The piratical enlightenment / Adrian Johns -- Financing enlightenment, part one: money matters / Mary Poovey -- Financing enlightenment, part two: extraordinary expenditure / Ian Baucom -- "The horrifying ties, from which the public order originates": the police in Schiller and Mercier / Berhard Siegert -- The preacher's footing / Michael Warner -- Mediation as primal word: the arts, the sciences, and the origins of the aesthetic / Michael McKeon.
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| Abstract
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Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Imanual Kant himself addressed the question, "What is Enlightenment?" The contributors to this ambitious book offer a paradigm-shifting answer to that now-famous query: Enlightenment is an event in the history of mediation. Enlightenment, they argue, needs to be engaged within the newly broad sense of mediation introduced here--not only oral, visual, written, and printed media, but everything that intervenes, enables, supplements, or is simply in between. With essays addressing infrastructure and genres, associat.
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Communication in learning and scholarship-- History-- 18th century, Congresses.
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Communication-- History-- 18th century, Congresses.
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Enlightenment, Congresses.
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Mass media-- History-- 18th century, Congresses.
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Communication in learning and scholarship.
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Communication.
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Enlightenment.
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Mass media.
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PHILOSOPHY-- History Surveys-- Modern.
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190.9/033
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B802.T468 2010eb
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Siskin, Clifford.
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Warner, William,1954-
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