Light without heat : the observational mood from Bacon to Milton /

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"Argues for the importance of states of careless inattention and easygoing dispassion to literary and scientific works inspired by Francis Bacon's philosophy of nature, retrieving a counternarrative to the rise of scientific method and its attendant ethos of rigor in the intellectual cultu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Simon, David Carroll (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Temas:
Bacon, Francis, > 1561-1626 > Influence.
Bacon, Francis, > 1561-1626.
1500-1700
Literature and science > England > History > 17th century.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Observation (Scientific method) > England > History > 17th century.
Philosophy of nature in literature.
Empiricism in literature.
Littérature et sciences > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Observation (Méthode scientifique) > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Philosophie de la nature dans la littérature.
Empirisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature > Early modern.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Intellectual life.
Literature and science.
Observation (Scientific method)
England > Intellectual life > 17th century.
Angleterre > Vie intellectuelle > 17e siècle.
England.
nonchalance, affect theory, experimental science, Michel de Montaigne, renaissance literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : atmospheres of understanding : scientific emotion and literary criticism
  • "Nonchalance" and the making of knowledge : Francis Bacon after Michel de Montaigne
  • The angle of thought : Robert Boyle, Izaak Walton, and the scientific imagination
  • The microscope made easy : Andrew Marvell with Henry Power
  • The paradise without : John Milton in the garden.

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