Literate Experience argues for the existence of certain shared patterns of intellectual association in the English seventeenth century, patterns that follow the outlines of Bacon’s project of epistemological reform. Bacon’s project offered a theory of how knowing as a private act could be transformed into a public one, an act related to the creation and maintenance of public authority. The question thus becomes, how did thinkers in the period reimagine civil society as a polity of knowledge? This study traces out a variety of answers to that question, ranging from the Royal Society’s communal rhetoric to the work of four literary writers who, in a variety of ways, problematize the notion that political society exists as a community of shared knowledge.
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"Literate Experience/ offers a richly suggestive analysis of the relations between science, politics, and literature in Stuart England." --Debora Shuger, UCLA
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Andrew Barnaby is Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont. His previously published work includes articles on Bacon, Shakespeare, Milton, and Marvell.
Lisa J. Schnell is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Vermont. Her previously published work includes articles on Aemelia Lanyer, Rachel Speght and Aphra Behn.
Lisa J. Schnell is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Vermont. Her previously published work includes articles on Aemelia Lanyer, Rachel Speght and Aphra Behn.
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As Richard Rorty once told the story in his Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, the emergence in the seventeenth century of what is now called epistemology was to have a baleful influence on the subsequent history of philosophy For Rorty, modern philosophy has become a sterile enterprise to the extent that it has been premised on an interpretive model established originally by Descartes, Locke, and their contemporaries and later consolidated by Kant and nineteenth-century neo-Kantians Rorty complains in particular of modern philosophy's excessive concern with explicating mental states and processes, a sign of its continued attachment to a pervasive mind-body dualism given definitive shape and direction in the seventeenth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
natural philosophical reform, humanist theater, epistemological reform, neoclassical discourse, experimental discourse, negotiated truth, literate experience, page number preceded, neoclassical writers, epistemological authority, cultural rhetoric, metaphysical poetry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Society, Instauratio Magna, Advancement of Learning, King James, Aphra Behn, Old Testament, Norum Organum, Richard Kroll, The Definition of Love, The Description of Cooke-ham, Timothy Reiss, English Revolution, Mount Acidale, Queen Anne, Samuel Johnson, Spheares of Government New!
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As Richard Rorty once told the story in his Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, the emergence in the seventeenth century of what is now called epistemology was to have a baleful influence on the subsequent history of philosophy For Rorty, modern philosophy has become a sterile enterprise to the extent that it has been premised on an interpretive model established originally by Descartes, Locke, and their contemporaries and later consolidated by Kant and nineteenth-century neo-Kantians Rorty complains in particular of modern philosophy's excessive concern with explicating mental states and processes, a sign of its continued attachment to a pervasive mind-body dualism given definitive shape and direction in the seventeenth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
natural philosophical reform, humanist theater, epistemological reform, neoclassical discourse, experimental discourse, negotiated truth, literate experience, page number preceded, neoclassical writers, epistemological authority, cultural rhetoric, metaphysical poetry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Royal Society, Instauratio Magna, Advancement of Learning, King James, Aphra Behn, Old Testament, Norum Organum, Richard Kroll, The Definition of Love, The Description of Cooke-ham, Timothy Reiss, English Revolution, Mount Acidale, Queen Anne, Samuel Johnson, Spheares of Government New!
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- The Instauratio Magna: Last Writings (Oxford Francis Bacon) by Francis Bacon on 12 pages
- The Advancement of Learning (Modern Library Science) by Francis Bacon on 10 pages
- Novum Organum (Spanish Edition) by Francis Bacon on 7 pages
- Measure for Measure (Signet Classics) by William Shakespeare on 6 pages
- Measure for Measure (Oxford School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare on 6 pages
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