Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
List of Illustrations Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Concepts of Order in the Eighteenth Century, their Scope and their Frailties; D.Donald PART I: THE ORDERING OF THE WORLD AND OF HUMAN AFFAIRS Providence, Predestination and Progress: Or, Did the Enlightenment Fail?; J.C.D.Clark 'One is All, and All is One': The Great Chain of Being in Berkley's Siris; C.Bradatan Ordering the Political World: The Pattern of Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain; F.O'Gorman The Ordering of Family and Gender in the Age of Enlightenment; R.Sweet PART II: THE ORDERING OF KNOWLEDGE: BRIDGING NATURE AND CULTURE F libien and the Circle of Colbert: A Re-Evaluation of the Hierarchy of Genres; B.Anderman The Values of the Mineral Kingdom and the French Republic; J.Simon The Syst me Figur des Conaissances Humaines and the Structure of Knowledge in the Encyclop die; D.Adams 'Encircling the Arts and Sciences': British Encyclopaedism after the French Revolution; J.Hawley Index