The Enlightenment Encyclopedia and the Dream of Comprehensiveness

The encyclopedia – such as Diderot’s Encyclopédie (1751-80) or Ephraim Chambers’ Cyclopedia, or, An universal dictionary of arts and sciences (1728) – is a characteristic form of Enlightenment knowledge. It represents two opposing discourses in eighteenth-century culture: the positivistic impulse to...

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