The Kingdom of Science: Literary Utopianism and British Education, 1612-1870University of Nebraska Press, 2002 - 375 Seiten The Kingdom of Science examines Baconian utopias as blueprints for a scientific sociology of knowledge that founded a new social and economic world in the seventeenth century. Looking backward, Paul A. Olson begins with More's Utopia and Shakespeare's The Tempest, static state utopias designed to woo us toward a moral as opposed to a scientific reform. To these, Olson then contrasts the primary subjects of his study--Bacon's New Atlantis, the Commonwealth educational utopias, and the utopianism of Adam Smith and his Utilitarian followers. These later utopias increasingly point to an ideal world to be dominated by a science linked to technology, compelled education, and competitive capitalism. They posit as their end the conquest of nature and use as their means the routinizing of research and education. Their visions, Olson argues, lie at the center of the educational models adopted by mainstream British and American policymakers in the last century and a half--despite the warnings of both conservative and radical critics concerning their potential consequences for the environment and for culture. The challenge Olson presents for those responsible for forging our social future is creating visions sufficient to energize human groups while allowing both for the critical reflection necessary for constructive policy debate and for the action necessary to prevent environmental chaos and cultural disruption. The Kingdom of Science is a companion to Olson's earlier book, The Journey to Wisdom, and carries the assumptions of that patristic-medieval study into the early-modern and modern periods. |
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... political vicissitudes did not die in Bacon with Frederick's defeat . Though in April of 1621 , about three years after the beginning of the Thirty Years War , Bacon confessed to several charges of accepting bribes in chancery suits and ...
... political vicissitudes did not die in Bacon with Frederick's defeat . Though in April of 1621 , about three years after the beginning of the Thirty Years War , Bacon confessed to several charges of accepting bribes in chancery suits and ...
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... political effort had gone to keeping its clouds from appearing at all , and then temporizing when they did , he died a “ political failure . " But , though a failure in the short run , he suc- ceeded magnificently in the long - in ...
... political effort had gone to keeping its clouds from appearing at all , and then temporizing when they did , he died a “ political failure . " But , though a failure in the short run , he suc- ceeded magnificently in the long - in ...
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... political economy and patronizingly deplore that such a friend of progress as George Combe should be still sticking fast in the middle of them , " and they go on to accuse Williams of teaching Smithian doctrines because his patrons and ...
... political economy and patronizingly deplore that such a friend of progress as George Combe should be still sticking fast in the middle of them , " and they go on to accuse Williams of teaching Smithian doctrines because his patrons and ...
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Shakespeares Utopian Tempest | 1 |
Education by the Book | 17 |
New Atlantis and the Chiliastic Utopias | 41 |
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