Culture of Accidents : Unexpected Knowledges in Early Modern England /

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Collapsing buildings, unexpected meetings in the marketplace, monstrous births, encounters with pirates at sea-these and other unforeseen "accidents" at the turn of the seventeenth century in England acquired unprecedented significance in the early modern philosophical and cultural imagina...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Witmore, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Accidents > History.
Philosophy, English.
Cultural Studies.
Literary Studies > British.
PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Note on Modernization
  • Introduction: A Narrative Wonder
  • 1 Early Modern Accidents and an Aristotelian Tradition
  • 2 Exemplary Accidents from Cicero to Jean Calvin
  • 3 The Avoidance of Ends in The Comedy of Errors
  • 4 Hamlet Interrupted
  • 5 Accident and the Invention of Knowledge in Francis Bacon's Natural Philosophy
  • 6 Wonders Taken for Signs: The Blackfriars Accident of 1623
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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