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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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Simon, David Carroll (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
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.
Empiricism in literature
English literature > Early modern
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Intellectual life
Literature and science
Observation (Scientific method)
Philosophy of nature in literature
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
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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 culture of seventeenth-century England"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 297 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781501723421
1501723421
1501723405
9781501723407

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