Francis Bacon and the Seventeenth-Century Intellectual Discourse

Francis Bacon and the Seventeenth-Century Intellectual Discourse

Author: A. Funari

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-10-10

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 0230337910

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This book explores the resistance of three English poets to Francis Bacon's project to restore humanity to Adamic mastery over nature, moving beyond a discussion of the tension between Bacon and these poetic voices to suggest theywere also debating the narrative of humanity's intellectual path.


Francis Bacon and the Seventeenth-Century Intellectual Discourse

Francis Bacon and the Seventeenth-Century Intellectual Discourse

Author: A. Funari

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-10-10

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0230337910

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This book explores the resistance of three English poets to Francis Bacon's project to restore humanity to Adamic mastery over nature, moving beyond a discussion of the tension between Bacon and these poetic voices to suggest theywere also debating the narrative of humanity's intellectual path.


Essential Articles for the Study of Francis Bacon

Essential Articles for the Study of Francis Bacon

Author: Brian Vickers

Publisher:

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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After a long period of neglect and abuse it is a pleasure to report that the last thirty years have seen a great revival of interest in Bacon, a revival that has produced informed and detailed criticism both at the general level and as more specialized studies, the best of which are included in this volume. - Introduction.


Francis Bacon: From Magic to Science

Francis Bacon: From Magic to Science

Author: Paolo Rossi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1135028109

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Originally published in 1968. This volume discusses Francis Bacon’s thought and work in the context of the European cultural environment that influenced Bacon’s philosophy and was in turn influenced by it. It examines the influence of magical and alchemical traditions on Bacon and his opposition to these traditions, as well as illustrating the naturalist, materialist and ethico-political patterns in Bacon’s allegorical interpretations of fables.


Francis Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern Thought

Francis Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern Thought

Author: Catherine Gimelli Martin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 1351935895

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Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the publication of Francis Bacon's Advancement of Learning (1605), this collection examines Bacon's recasting of proto-scientific philosophies and practices into early modern discourses of knowledge. Like Bacon, all of the contributors to this volume confront an essential question: how to integrate intellectual traditions with emergent knowledges to forge new intellectual futures. The volume's main theme is Bacon's core interest in identifying and conceptualizing coherent intellectual disciplines, including the central question of whether Bacon succeeded in creating unified discourses about learning. Bacon's interests in natural philosophy, politics, ethics, law, medicine, religion, neoplatonic magic, technology and humanistic learning are here mirrored in the contributors' varied intellectual backgrounds and diverse approaches to Bacon's thought.


Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy

Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy

Author: Stephen Gaukroger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-03-19

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1139428829

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This ambitious and important book, first published in 2001, provides a truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher. It describes how Bacon transformed the values that had underpinned philosophical culture since antiquity by rejecting the traditional idea of a philosopher as someone engaged in contemplation of the cosmos. The book explores in detail how and why Bacon attempted to transform the largely esoteric discipline of natural philosophy into a public practice through a program in which practical science provided a model that inspired many from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Stephen Gaukroger shows that this reform of natural philosophy was dependent on the creation of a new philosophical persona: a natural philosopher shaped through submission to the dictates of Baconian method. This book will be recognized as a major contribution to Baconian scholarship, of special interest to historians of early-modern philosophy, science, and ideas.


Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse

Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse

Author: Lisa Jardine

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780521204941

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A New York socialite who wasn't interested in fortune or fame? That was Judy Lovin who valued friendship, integrity and her career as a preschool teacher. Then her father's business collapsed, and his most powerful enemy offered to help, but under the condition that Judy would accompany him to a remote Caribbean island as his companion - nothing more. Since it meant so much to her family, Judy agreed. She suspected that he was probably a harmless lonely man. But she was so wrong. She didn't expect to meet a powerful, attractive loner who would stun her senses and capture her heart.


Origin and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England

Origin and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England

Author: Alvin Snider

Publisher:

Published: 1994-08-18

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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Snider concentrates on three texts: Bacon's Novum Organum, Milton's Paradise Lost, and Butler's Hudibras. He treats the concept of a definitive origin not just as a literary or historical tope but as a complex system of representation that informs the poetry, philosophy, and other writings of the period.


Objectivity in the Making

Objectivity in the Making

Author: Julie Robin Solomon

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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In Objectivity in the Making Julie Robin Solomon describes how disinterestedness became a dominant principle of intellectual modernity by examining Bacon's notion of scientific self-distancing against the background of early modern political ideology, socioeconomic behavior, and traditions of learning. Solomon places Bacon between two cultures - Jacobean monarchical mercantilism and the self-distancing strategies of early-seventeenth-century traders and travelers. She shows that - by virtue of his prominent political position within the Jacobean court, familiarity with prevailing commercial practices, and humanistic learning - he made signal contributions to natural philosophy. While arguing how much the rise of scientific objectivity owed to sociohistorical circumstances, Solomon nonetheless challenges the single-minded reliance upon the explanatory power of social-construction theory within the context of literary and cultural studies of science.


Reckoning Words

Reckoning Words

Author: Diana B Altegoer

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780838638255

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Bacon did not call into being a fissure of science and the arts; rather he conceptualized a unique relationship between the two by creating an experimental (and rhetoricized) "logic" that allowed nature to shape and fashion the perceiving mind of the witness in order to advance the political fortunes of Elizabethan and Stuart England."--BOOK JACKET.