The Geography of Knowledge in Bacon's New Atlantis
Author : Gerald A. Ward
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Travel
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Author : Gerald A. Ward
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Travel
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Author : Francis Bacon
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 31,49 MB
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Fiction
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New Atlantis is a utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon, which he never finished. It was published posthumously in 1626. In "New Atlantis," Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressing his aspirations and ideals for humankind.
Author : Francis Bacon
Publisher :
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Utopias
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Author : Francis Bacon
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 2018-07-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 048683266X
Campanella was a student of logic and physics; Bacon focused on politics and philosophy — but despite their authors' differences, both of these utopian visions reflect the spirit of 17th-century philosophy.
Author : Bacon Francis
Publisher : Double 9 Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 2023-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789358018042
"The New Atlantis" is a utopian work of fiction by Sir Francis Bacon. The story is told by an unnamed narrator who recounts his voyage to the island of Bensalem, a land where scientific knowledge and religious piety coexist in harmony. Bensalem is a society that is centered around scientific research and discovery. The people of Bensalem have a deep reverence for knowledge and devote their lives to the pursuit of scientific inquiry. They have developed advanced technologies, including flying machines and submarines, that are used to explore the mysteries of the natural world. The people of Bensalem also have a strong religious faith, and their scientific pursuits are guided by their belief in a divine creator. They believe that scientific knowledge can bring them closer to God and that their discoveries are a gift from God. The narrator is impressed by the people of Bensalem and their dedication to scientific research and religious piety. He returns to Europe with a new perspective on the relationship between science and religion and a renewed sense of hope for the future. Overall, "The New Atlantis" is a visionary work that imagines a world where science and religion can coexist in harmony, and where scientific inquiry can be pursued for the betterment of humanity.
Author : Francis Bacon
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Utopias
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Author : Bronwen Price
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526137380
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This volume of eight new essays by leading scholars provides a stimulating dialogue between a range of critical perspectives. Encompassing the fields of cultural history, history of science, literature, and politics, the collection explores The New Atlantis' complex location within Bacon's oeuvre and its negotiations with cultural debates of the past and present. Often regarded as the apotheosis of Bacon's ideas through its depiction of an advanced “scientific” society, it is also read as a seminal work of science fiction.
Author : Francis Bacon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1119098017
This richly annotated second edition of the now-classic pairing of Bacon’s masterpieces, New Atlantis and The Great Instauration features the addition of other works by Bacon, including “The Idols of the Mind,” Of Unity in Religion” and “Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates,” as well a Summary of the each work and Questions for the reader. S Includes works new to the second edition, including “The Idols of the Mind,” “Of Unity in Religion,” and “Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates” Updates the layout of the previous edition with a more generous interior design, making this work more student-friendly and easier to navigate in the classroom Each work is introduced and subsequently discussed, revealing the importance of Bacon’s work to his contemporaries as well as to modern readers Includes a comprehensive introduction and annotations throughout the text; as well as an appendix of Principal Dates in the Life of Sir Francis Bacon; a selected bibliography; and synopses and questions to accompany each work
Author : Marina Leslie
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,44 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801434006
Marina Leslie draws on three important early modern utopian texts--Thomas More's Utopia, Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, and Margaret Cavendish's Description of a New World Called the Blazing World--as a means of exploring models for historical transformation and of addressing the relationship of literature and history in contemporary critical practice. While the genre of utopian texts is a fertile terrain for historicist readings, Leslie demonstrates that utopia provides unstable ground for charting out the relation of literary text to historical context. In particular, she examines the ways that both Marxist and new historicist critics have taken the literary utopia not simply as one form among many available for reading historically but as a privileged form or methodological paradigm. Rather than approach utopia by mapping out a fixed set of formal features, or by tracing the development of the genre, Leslie elaborates a history of utopia as critical practice. Moreover, by taking every reading of utopia to be as historically symptomatic as the literary production it assesses, her book integrates readings of these three English Renaissance utopias with an analysis of the history and politics of reading utopia. Throughout, Leslie considers utopia as a fictional enactment of historical process and method. In her view, these early modern utopian constructions of history relate very closely to and impinge upon the narrative structures of history assumed by critical theory today.
Author : Jason H. Pearl
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 35,35 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0813936241
Historians of the Enlightenment have studied the period’s substantial advances in world cartography, as well as the decline of utopia imagined in geographic terms. Literary critics, meanwhile, have assessed the emerging novel’s realism and in particular the genre’s awareness of the wider world beyond Europe. Jason Pearl unites these lines of inquiry in Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel, arguing that prose fiction from 1660 to 1740 helped demystify blank spaces on the map and make utopia available anywhere. This literature incorporated, debunked, and reformulated utopian conceptions of geography. Reports of ideal societies have always prompted skepticism, and it is now common to imagine them in the future, rather than on some undiscovered island or continent. At precisely the time when novels began turning from the fabulous settings of romance to the actual locations described in contemporaneous travel accounts, a number of writers nevertheless tried to preserve and reconfigure utopia by giving it new coordinates and parameters. Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and others told of adventurous voyages and extraordinary worlds. They engaged critically and creatively with the idea of utopia. If these writers ultimately concede that utopian geographies were nowhere to be found, they also reimagine the essential ideals as new forms of interiority and sociability that could be brought back to England. Questions about geography and utopia drove many of the formal innovations of the early novel. As this book shows, what resulted were new ways of representing both world geography and utopian possibility.