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For hundreds of years, Modernity has been definedand either legitimated or challenged with referenceto the works of Francis Bacon. In this study, whichaddresses all the writings but gives special attentionto the lnstauratio Magna, Charles Whitney presentsthe essayist and philosopher from a new viewpoint-as a visionary whose own modernity entangleshim inescapably with the legacy of the past.Whitney synthesizes philosophy, literary andscientific history, and critical theory in exploringBacon's concepts of change and his place in the visionarytradition of literature and philosophy. Joiningdeconstruction and ideological analysis,Whitney argues that Bacon's modernity is markedby discontinuities between traditional and innovativeapproaches to change--between reform andrevolution. He relates these discontinuities toemerging problems of literary representation, socialclass, and the political and religious ideas of James I.Whitney points out Bacon's complex relationshipto the tradition of biblical prophecy, which wasboth a model for future-oriented originality and asource of past-oriented authority, and he offers anapproach to the question of secularization that hasbeen central to debates a

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Author

Charles Whitney

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300035858

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Social Science, Renaissance & Modern Philosophy