Joanna Stalnaker
Biographic Data
| ID | 1382933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanna Stalnaker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Stalnaker |
| SIGNATURE | STALNAKER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Un avant-goût du néant
Cet article porte sur la philosophie de la mort élaborée par Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand, dans sa correspondance avec Voltaire. Celle-ci tourne autour du concept clé du néant et de l’ennui que Deffand a éprouvé quotidiennement, conçu comme « un avant-goût du néant ». Le but du propos est de montrer que Deffand, en tant que salonnière qui n’a jamais cherché à faire publier ses écrits et qui ne souhaitait pas qu’on parle d’ell…
Les bouquets de Jean Starobinski
Jonathan Israel in Dialogue
This essay addresses Jonathan Israel’s work on the Enlightenment and his response to his critics, with a particular focus on his interpretation of the French Enlightenment figures Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The essay makes the argument that the stakes of the vociferous exchange between Israel and his critics concern not just our historical interpretation of the Enlightenment, but also the place of dialogue in our search for historic…
Description and the Nonhuman View of Nature
This article looks at two writers of the French eighteenth century, the naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon and the poet Jacques Delille, whose innovative practices of description call into question our modern opposition between literature and science and raise the issue of how literature might be transformed through attention to nonhuman views of nature
Les maîtres du goût au siècle des Lumières
Mary Terrall. Catching Nature in the Act
Mary Terrall's latest book is a meticulously researched and beautifully written account of the observational and experimental practice of natural history during the first half of the eighteenth century in France. It is in part an attempt to rehabilitate Terrall's central figure, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683–1757), a naturalist often viewed through the eyes of his more famous rival and successor, Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, who moc…
The Unfinished Enlightenment
In The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world. Through a series of readings of natural histories, encyclopedias, scientific poetry, and urban topographies, the book uncovers the deep epistemological and literary tensions that made description a central preoccupation for authors such a…
Buffon on Death and Fossils
This article addresses the association between death and fossils that Buffon developed across the thirty-six volumes of his Histoire naturelle and its implications for his literary project. Through a study of the connections between Buffon's physiological theory of death, his fable of the first man, his anthropological treatment of funeral rites among non-European peoples, his statistical studies of life expectancy, and his personalized discussio…
The New Paris in Guise of the Old
Painting Life, Describing Death
Painting Life, Describing Death: Problems of Representation and Style in the Histoire naturelle JOANNA STALNAKER In 1739, Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon was named Intendant to the King's Garden and Natural History Cabinet in Paris. Around the same time, he conceived a project of monumental proportions that would become the Histoire naturelle, générale et particulià ̈re, avec la description du Cabinet du Roy: thirty-six volumes published o…
Description and the Nonhuman View of Nature
This article looks at two writers of the French eighteenth century, the naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon and the poet Jacques Delille, whose innovative practices of description call into question our modern opposition between literature and science and raise the issue of how literature might be transformed through attention to nonhuman views of nature
Painting Life, Describing Death
Painting Life, Describing Death: Problems of Representation and Style in the Histoire naturelle JOANNA STALNAKER In 1739, Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon was named Intendant to the King's Garden and Natural History Cabinet in Paris. Around the same time, he conceived a project of monumental proportions that would become the Histoire naturelle, générale et particulià ̈re, avec la description du Cabinet du Roy: thirty-six volumes published o…
Painting Life, Describing Death
Painting Life, Describing Death: Problems of Representation and Style in the Histoire naturelle JOANNA STALNAKER In 1739, Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon was named Intendant to the King's Garden and Natural History Cabinet in Paris. Around the same time, he conceived a project of monumental proportions that would become the Histoire naturelle, générale et particulià ̈re, avec la description du Cabinet du Roy: thirty-six volumes published o…
The New Paris in Guise of the Old
The Unfinished Enlightenment
In The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world. Through a series of readings of natural histories, encyclopedias, scientific poetry, and urban topographies, the book uncovers the deep epistemological and literary tensions that made description a central preoccupation for authors such a…
Buffon on Death and Fossils
This article addresses the association between death and fossils that Buffon developed across the thirty-six volumes of his Histoire naturelle and its implications for his literary project. Through a study of the connections between Buffon's physiological theory of death, his fable of the first man, his anthropological treatment of funeral rites among non-European peoples, his statistical studies of life expectancy, and his personalized discussio…
Mary Terrall. Catching Nature in the Act
Mary Terrall's latest book is a meticulously researched and beautifully written account of the observational and experimental practice of natural history during the first half of the eighteenth century in France. It is in part an attempt to rehabilitate Terrall's central figure, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683–1757), a naturalist often viewed through the eyes of his more famous rival and successor, Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, who moc…
Les maîtres du goût au siècle des Lumières
Jonathan Israel in Dialogue
This essay addresses Jonathan Israel’s work on the Enlightenment and his response to his critics, with a particular focus on his interpretation of the French Enlightenment figures Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The essay makes the argument that the stakes of the vociferous exchange between Israel and his critics concern not just our historical interpretation of the Enlightenment, but also the place of dialogue in our search for historic…
Description and the Nonhuman View of Nature
This article looks at two writers of the French eighteenth century, the naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon and the poet Jacques Delille, whose innovative practices of description call into question our modern opposition between literature and science and raise the issue of how literature might be transformed through attention to nonhuman views of nature
Les bouquets de Jean Starobinski
Un avant-goût du néant
Cet article porte sur la philosophie de la mort élaborée par Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand, dans sa correspondance avec Voltaire. Celle-ci tourne autour du concept clé du néant et de l’ennui que Deffand a éprouvé quotidiennement, conçu comme « un avant-goût du néant ». Le but du propos est de montrer que Deffand, en tant que salonnière qui n’a jamais cherché à faire publier ses écrits et qui ne souhaitait pas qu’on parle d’ell…
Art (9 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · History (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · French Literature and Criticism (3 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (3 works) · Humanities (3 works)