John Bender is Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Director of the Humanities Center, at Stanford University. Michael Marrinan is Professor of Art History at Stanford University.

• Introduction-John Bender and Michael MarrinanDescription: Fantasies of General KnowledgeDescription by Omission: Nature Enlightened and Obscured-Lorraine DastonNature's Unruly Body: The Limits of Scientific Description-Londa SchiebingerMithridates in Paradise: Describing Languages in a Universalistic World-Jürgen TrabantBetween Political Arithmetic and Political Economy-Mary PooveyDescribing: Imagination and KnowingProblems of Description in Art: Realism-Wolfgang KleinImagining Flowers: Perceptual Mimesis (Particularly Delphinium)-Elaine ScarryNot Seeing the Laocoön: Lessing in the Archive of the Eighteenth Century-Wolfgang ErnstDisparities between Part and Whole in the Description of Works of Art-Alex PottsThe Undescribed: Horizons of the KnownBetween Mechanism and Romantic Naturphilosophie: Vitalizing Nature and Naturalizing Historical Discourse in the Late Enlightenment-Peter Hanns ReillTransparency and Utopia: Constructing the Void from Pascal to Foucault-Anthony VidlerAesthetic Media: The Structure of Aesthetic Theory before Kant-David E. Wellbery

John Bender is Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Director of the Humanities Center, at Stanford University. Michael Marrinan is Professor of Art History at Stanford University.

• Introduction-John Bender and Michael MarrinanDescription: Fantasies of General KnowledgeDescription by Omission: Nature Enlightened and Obscured-Lorraine DastonNature's Unruly Body: The Limits of Scientific Description-Londa SchiebingerMithridates in Paradise: Describing Languages in a Universalistic World-Jürgen TrabantBetween Political Arithmetic and Political Economy-Mary PooveyDescribing: Imagination and KnowingProblems of Description in Art: Realism-Wolfgang KleinImagining Flowers: Perceptual Mimesis (Particularly Delphinium)-Elaine ScarryNot Seeing the Laocoön: Lessing in the Archive of the Eighteenth Century-Wolfgang ErnstDisparities between Part and Whole in the Description of Works of Art-Alex PottsThe Undescribed: Horizons of the KnownBetween Mechanism and Romantic Naturphilosophie: Vitalizing Nature and Naturalizing Historical Discourse in the Late Enlightenment-Peter Hanns ReillTransparency and Utopia: Constructing the Void from Pascal to Foucault-Anthony VidlerAesthetic Media: The Structure of Aesthetic Theory before Kant-David E. Wellbery

John Bender is Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Director of the Humanities Center, at Stanford University. Michael Marrinan is Professor of Art History at Stanford University.

• Introduction-John Bender and Michael MarrinanDescription: Fantasies of General KnowledgeDescription by Omission: Nature Enlightened and Obscured-Lorraine DastonNature's Unruly Body: The Limits of Scientific Description-Londa SchiebingerMithridates in Paradise: Describing Languages in a Universalistic World-Jürgen TrabantBetween Political Arithmetic and Political Economy-Mary PooveyDescribing: Imagination and KnowingProblems of Description in Art: Realism-Wolfgang KleinImagining Flowers: Perceptual Mimesis (Particularly Delphinium)-Elaine ScarryNot Seeing the Laocoön: Lessing in the Archive of the Eighteenth Century-Wolfgang ErnstDisparities between Part and Whole in the Description of Works of Art-Alex PottsThe Undescribed: Horizons of the KnownBetween Mechanism and Romantic Naturphilosophie: Vitalizing Nature and Naturalizing Historical Discourse in the Late Enlightenment-Peter Hanns ReillTransparency and Utopia: Constructing the Void from Pascal to Foucault-Anthony VidlerAesthetic Media: The Structure of Aesthetic Theory before Kant-David E. Wellbery