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Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse
Lisa Jardine
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Description for Francis Bacon: Discovery and the Art of Discourse
hardcover. This is a substantial and valuable study of the intellectual Renaissance background from which Bacon emerged and against which he reacted. Num Pages: 275 pages. BIC Classification: PDA. Dimension: 222 x 145. Weight in Grams: 43. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
By modern standards Bacon's writings are striking in their range and diversity, and they are too often considered a separate specialist concerns in isolation from each other. Dr Jardine finds a unifying principle in Bacon's preoccupation with 'method', the evaluation and organisation of information as a procedure of investigation or of presentation. She shows how such an interpretation makes consistent (and often surprising) sense of the whole corpus of Bacon's writings: how the familiar but misunderstood inductive method for natural science relations to the more information strategies of argument in his historical, ethical, political and literary work. There is a ... Read more
By modern standards Bacon's writings are striking in their range and diversity, and they are too often considered a separate specialist concerns in isolation from each other. Dr Jardine finds a unifying principle in Bacon's preoccupation with 'method', the evaluation and organisation of information as a procedure of investigation or of presentation. She shows how such an interpretation makes consistent (and often surprising) sense of the whole corpus of Bacon's writings: how the familiar but misunderstood inductive method for natural science relations to the more information strategies of argument in his historical, ethical, political and literary work. There is a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
275
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521204941
SKU
KSG0035449
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