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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... production and reproduction ( though I have not found Ellis anywhere explicitly referring to methods of birth con- trol ) . In warning of the Malthusian nightmare , Ellis is at one with Combe in offering the Malthusian theory's almost ...
... production and reproduction ( though I have not found Ellis anywhere explicitly referring to methods of birth con- trol ) . In warning of the Malthusian nightmare , Ellis is at one with Combe in offering the Malthusian theory's almost ...
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... production , combined in Ellis's case with a vague hope for population control . We will all die of famine if we do not produce more ; education will make us see this , and help us pro- duce more . At the same time as Combe and Ellis ...
... production , combined in Ellis's case with a vague hope for population control . We will all die of famine if we do not produce more ; education will make us see this , and help us pro- duce more . At the same time as Combe and Ellis ...
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... production of a competitive student body - all students measured and ranked on the same tasks — did not come from ... produce an intellectual common . But in the next generation , the first and second generation Utili- tarians who are ...
... production of a competitive student body - all students measured and ranked on the same tasks — did not come from ... produce an intellectual common . But in the next generation , the first and second generation Utili- tarians who are ...
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Shakespeares Utopian Tempest | 1 |
Education by the Book | 17 |
New Atlantis and the Chiliastic Utopias | 41 |
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