The Advancement of Learning

ISBN-13: 9780198123484 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 512 str.

Francis Bacon; Francis Bacon; Michael Kiernan

Opis

This seminal philosophical treatise, originally penned in 1605 and considered the first major philosophical work written in English, also offers the first description of science as a tool to improve the human condition. This breakthrough work of the English Renaissance hailed new times and new possibilities for the human species. Bacon catalogs the current state of learning, the obstacles to its progress, and his own plans for its revitalization. Newly designed and reset as an inexpensive paperback, this edition makes available a work that has significantly defined the modern era.

Recenzje

Kiernan is especially good in tracking classical and contemporary allusions; in situating Bacon on the social and political map of his day; and in discussing Bacon's understanding of humanism, rhetoric, dialectic, and moral philosophy.

O autorze

Michael Kiernan is Associate Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University, and editor of Frances Bacon: Essays (OUP/Harvard, 1985)–to be reissued as Volume XV of OFB, 1999.