The Ends of Knowledge: Outcomes and Endpoints Across the Arts and Sciences. Questo articolo non è disponibile.The Ends of Knowledge: Outcomes and Endpoints Across the Arts and Sciences

Bringing together a truly interdisciplinary set of essays from contributors inside and outside of the academy, this book uses the Enlightenment idea that disciplines had particular "ends" - purposes as well as endpoints - as a jumping-off point to explore the ways in which we conceptualize knowledge now.

Rachael Scarborough King is Associate Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara, USA; she studies the literature and media of the long eighteenth century, with particular interests in newspapers, periodicals, and letters. She is the author of Writing to the World: Letters and the Origins of Modern Print Genres and editor of After Print: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures. She completed her Ph.D. in English and American Literature at New York University, and her B.A. in Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.

Seth Rudy is Associate Professor and Charles M. Glover Chair of English at Rhodes College, USA, where he studies the history of ideas and encyclopedic knowledge projects of the eighteenth century. He is the author of Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain: The Pursuit of Complete Knowledge (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). He completed his Ph.D. in English and American Literature at New York University, and his BFA in Film Production at the Tisch School of the Arts.