Touching Books: Diderot, Novalis,and the Encyclopedia of the Future

This article considers the reinvention of the Enlightenment encyclopedic tradition in a late eighteenth-century Germany overwhelmed by the proliferation of print. In particular, it traces a shift in the very metaphors of encyclopedic knowledge from those of vision that characterized Diderot and D�...

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Published in:Representations (Berkeley, Calif.) Calif.), 2011-05, Vol.114 (1), p.65-102
Main Author: Wellmon, Chad
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cognition
Cognition & reasoning
Encyclopedias
Enlightenment
Federal Republic of Germany
German literature
Hardenberg, Georg Philipp Friedrich von (Novalis) (1772-1801)
Humans
Information management
Letters
Literature
Memory
Metaphors
Modern literature
Reading
Technology
Titles
Transcendentals
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Summary:This article considers the reinvention of the Enlightenment encyclopedic tradition in a late eighteenth-century Germany overwhelmed by the proliferation of print. In particular, it traces a shift in the very metaphors of encyclopedic knowledge from those of vision that characterized Diderot and D'Alembert'sEncyclopédieto those of touch that characterized the German poet Novalis'sAllgemeine Brouillon.
ISSN:0734-6018
1533-855X
DOI:10.1525/rep.2011.114.1.65