Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century

DAVID ADAMS Professor of French Enlightenment Studies, University of Manchester, UKBARBARA ANDERMAN Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of the History of Art, Lebanon Valley College, Pennsylvania, USACOSTICA BRADATAN Postdoctoral Fellow, Miami University, Ohio, USAJONATHAN C. D. CLARK Professor of History, University of Kansas at Laurence, Kansas, USAJUDITH HAWLEY Senior Lecturer in English, Royal Holloway College, University of London, UKJONATHAN SIMON Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, GermanyROSEMARY SWEET Lecturer, School of Historical Studies, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester, UK

• 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 Félibien 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 Système Figuré des Conaissances Humaines and the Structure of Knowledge in the Encyclopédie ; D.Adams 'Encircling the Arts and Sciences': British Encyclopaedism after the French Revolution; J.Hawley Index