The Kingdom of Science: Literary Utopianism and British Education, 1612-1870U of Nebraska Press, 01.01.2002 - 375 Seiten The Kingdom of Science examines Baconian utopias as blueprints for a scientific sociologyøof 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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Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
Shakespeares Utopian Tempest and Education by the Book | 17 |
New Atlantis and the Chiliastic Utopias | 41 |
Bacons Commonwealth Offspring | 67 |
The Scribleran Revolt against Education to Extend Human Empire | 89 |
Adam Smith and Utopia as Process | 133 |
Utilitarian Compulsory Utopia | 161 |
The Second Generation Utilitarians | 181 |
Dickenss Utilitarian Dystopia and the Death of the Social Commons | 227 |
Conclusion | 249 |
Notes | 269 |
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Adam Smith Advancement of Learning Aeneid appears argues Ariel Atlantis Baconian Bentham Birkbeck schools Cambridge century Chartists chiliastic Chrestomathia classes Combe Collection Combe's Comenius Comenius's Commonwealth competition compulsory education create culture Dickens divine Dunciad economic educa Ellis to Combe Ellis's England English epic essay fiction Francis Bacon George Combe George Eliot Gradgrind Gulliver Gulliver's Travels human empire industrial Instauration institutions Isaiah James John Jonathan Swift Journey to Wisdom Karl Mannheim knowledge labor London Mannheim's Martinus masque mathematical monitorial schools monitorial system More's movement myth natural law natural world Odyssey of Homer Owen passim phrenological Plato's political Pope Pope's proposals Prospero Protestant reform religious Renaissance Robert Owen Royal Society Samuel Hartlib scientific Scriblerans Scriblerus secular Shakespeare's social Solomon's House Spedding Swift teacher teaching Tempest theory things tion Ulysses University Press Utilitarian Utopia Virgil vision Wealth Webster workers writes