On "Encyclopédie"
New Books in Western European Studies
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What Is an Encyclopaedia?
One of the earliest surviving encyclopaedic works dates back to the first century c e. The term defines a reference text that includes summaries of different topics from either across different branches of knowledge or within one branch. Its authors aim to compile all the knowledge in the world, ad stood as not just an ideal, but an actual embodied ideal of knowledge. It stands as an openness, so that, in this case, anyone who could read can have accessed. This is not a project, as i take it, which is out there to reinforce class. It's not a project which is outthere to reinforce inherited wealth. As such,. I think, in and of itself, is a
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