In a pure soil’
Colonial anxieties in the work of Francis Bacon
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 11344720 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Sarah Irving (0000-0001-8470-175X, a King's College , Cambridge , UK, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2006 |
| Volumen | 32 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 249-262 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2006-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | History of European Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0191-6599 • E-ISSN: 1873-541X |
| Editorial | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2006.03.001 |
| OpenAlex | W2037651231 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 13 |
Early modern natural philosophers such as Francis Bacon are frequently seen as providing a legitimating ideology for British imperial expansion. Although this has been challenged by one recent study, much of Bacon's work on English colonisation remains unexplored. This article argues that far from being an ideological apologist for English colonisation, Bacon had two sets of colonial anxieties. The first derived from a tradition of civic humanism which concerned the moral corruption, dispossession of indigenous people and the greed involved in the British colonization of Ireland and America. Bacon's second anxiety was not moral but epistemological, and stemmed from his natural philosophy. For Bacon, colonies were not simply new commonwealths, they were places which potentially produced the natural knowledge vital for the recreation of man's original, epistemic empire over the world. Consequently, Bacon was not only interested in the morality of colonising, but also whether the knowledge produced in colonies was reliable. An exploration of Bacon's views on colonisation also offers us a point of entry into the scholarly debate about the relationship between Bacon's natural philosophy and his political thought
Archaeology · British Empire · Colonialism · Colonisation · Colonization · Empire · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Humanism · Ideology · Indigenous · Morality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Ecology · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
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| Obras citantes distintas | 13 |
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| Citas por año | 0,87 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Velocidad de citación | recent |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 13 |