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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
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Named Person: | Francis Bacon; Francis Bacon; Francis Bacon; Francis Bacon; Francis Bacon; Francis Bacon; Francis Bacon; Francis Bacon |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Perez Zagorin |
ISBN: | 0691059284 9780691059280 069100966X 9780691009667 |
OCLC Number: | 37653458 |
Awards: | Runner-up for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1998 |
Description: | xvi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: Bacon's Two Lives -- Philosophy and the Reconstruction of Knowledge: The Genesis of Bacon's Project -- The Great Instauration -- Human Philosophy: Morals and Politics -- Language, Law, and History. |
Responsibility: | by Perez Zagorin. |
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1998" "A concise but detailed analysis of [Bacon's] whole range of thought.... This penetrating account of Bacon's work can be recommended as the best single-volume study available."---Brian Vickers, The Times Literary Supplement "[Francis Bacon] will be useful to scholars for its ability to organize and explain a large and sometimes unwieldy topic ... and, because of its lucidity and clear-sightedness, it will be of interest to the general reader."---Charles Davis, Boston Book Review "A sensitive and sympathetic analysis.... There is always a suspicion, when one reads such a fine-lettered stylist as Bacon, that the prose is glittering with too many nice turns and rhetorical tricks. Zagorin's homage shows the substance to be reassuringly there behind it all."---Nigel Spivey, Financial Times "Zagorin ... brings a lifetime of learning, as well as personal enthusiasm, to his presentation of Bacon's intellectual accomplishments. This is a book not just to taste, but to chew and digest." * Washington Post * "[An] excellent new biography."---Roger Kimball, The Wall Street Journal "Eminently readable, expansive in scope, and scintillating. . . . [A] thoroughly researched, authoritative account." * Choice * Read more...

