Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 19, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780521801546
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Philosophy; History & Surveys - 17th/18th Century; Bacon, Francis,--1561-1626--Philosophy; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; History & Surveys - General; 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.