Progressive Poetics of Confusion in the French Enlightenment

In The Progressive Poetics of Confusion in the French Enlightenment, John C. O''Neal draws largely on the etymological meaning of the word confusion as the action of mixing or blending in order to trace the development of this project which, he claims, aimed to reject dogmatic thinking in all of its forms and recognized the need to embrace complexity. Eighteenth-century thinkers used the notion of...