Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 19, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780521805360
Subjects: Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; History & Surveys - General; Philosophy; History & Surveys - 17th/18th Century; Bacon, Francis,--1561-1626--Philosophy; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; 1561-1626; Bacon, Francis,; Philosophy, Modern
First sentence: Bacon's project was to harness firmly to the yoke of the state a new attitude to knowledge, and in the course of attempting to do this, he was led to think through and transform this new attitude to knowledge.