"Dare to Know uses the graphic arts to tell a more complex and global story of the Enlightenment. Questioning common assumptions about this so-called Age of Reason, the exhibition catalogue resists any unified, universal conception of the Enlightenment as demonstrated by the era's remarkable proliferation of works on paper. The multiplicity of the Enlightenment is made manifest in the book's organization-26 essays, one for each letter of the alphabet (A: Antiquities, B: Believe, C: Cruelty, and so on), plus 11 short object-focused spotlights-giving readers a range of entry points to topics both large and small, humorous and dark, known and surprising. A nod toward Diderot's Encyclopédie and other such period projects to gather and organize the world's knowledge, the volume jumps off from these precedents only to push back on the very type of categorization and understanding they advanced. With contributions by J. Cabelle Ahn, Elizabeth Saari Browne, Rachel Burke, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Anne Driesse, Paul Friedland, Thea Goldring, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Ashley Hannebrink, Joachim Homann, Kéla Jackson, Penley Knipe, Edouard Kopp, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Heather Linton, Austėja Mackelaitė, Tamar Mayer, Elizabeth Mitchell, Elizabeth M. Rudy, Brandon O. Scott, Kristel Smentek, Phoebe Springstubb, Gabriella Szalay, and Christina Taylor"--