Objectivity in the Making: Francis Bacon and the Politics of Inquiry - Tapa blanda

Solomon, Julie Robin

 
9780801872495: Objectivity in the Making: Francis Bacon and the Politics of Inquiry
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ISBN 10: 0801872499 ISBN 13: 9780801872495
Editorial: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002

Sinopsis

How we arrived at a capacity for taking cold, hard looks at the facts of natureÑand whether we ever truly have done soÑare questions that continue to engage both historians of science and students of culture. Historians of modern European intellectual history commonly credit Francis Bacon with laying the groundwork for a mode of study that begins without presuppositions, religious or otherwise, the kind of searching we know as research and long have credited as being "disinterested." In Objectivity in the Making, Julie Robin Solomon shows 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 him between two culturesÑJacobean monarchical mercantilism and the self-distancing strategies of early-seventeenth-century traders and travelers. She shows that BaconÑby virtue of his prominent political position within the Jacobean court, familiarity with prevailing commercial practices, and humanistic learningÑmade his signal contributions to natural philosophy because of where he stood at a critical juncture.

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Julie Robin Solomon is an associate professor of literature at American University.

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The Johns Hopkins University Press
Año de publicación
2002
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ISBN 10 
0801872499
ISBN 13 
9780801872495
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