Robert P. Ellis

Francis Bacon

The Double-Edged Life of the Philosopher and Statesman

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Produktbeschreibung

Around the time Shakespeare inaugurated the golden age of English drama, the young Francis Bacon proposed to take "all knowledge to be my province." He soon realized the difficulty of that but in the process he posed two related questions, which he understood better than any other man of his time: Can human beings respect and obey nature, and Can they also command nature? He asked many other questions considered useless and impractical in his time but vital in ours. After a busy career as an English parliamentarian, judge and advisor of King James I, Bacon published in his final years The Advancement of Learning, which included his New Atlantis, with its prescient vision of human accomplishments, many achieved only in the past century. The first important book of English essays, it is an investigation of civil and moral problems that continue to engage and perplex us.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 329g
• ISBN-13: 9780786497270
• ISBN-10: 0786497270
• Artikelnr.: 41853907

Autorenporträt

Robert P. Ellis is a retired English professor from Worcester State University. He lives in Northborough, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Preface
1 Introduction
5 1.
Now Somewhat Ancient
17 2.
Like a Child Following a Bird
33 3.
Not in the Proportion I Hoped
49 4.
The Corner-Stone Laid
62 5.
Prospects and Possibilities
81 6.
A Greater Place
98 7.
Lord Keeper, Lord Chancellor
109 8.
Still Ascending
123 9.
A Broken Reed
140 10.
Seeking an Otium
156 11.
They Come Home
173 12.
An Experiment or Two
190 Chapter Notes
201 Bibliography
205 Index
209