Bacon

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-108-03443-2
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 344 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - English Men of Letters

This introduction to the life and works of Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was published in the first series of English Men of Letters in 1884. The author, R. W. Church (1815-90), who also wrote on Spenser for this series, begins forcefully: 'The life of Francis Bacon is one which it is a pain to write or to read. It is the life of a man endowed with as rare a combination of noble gifts as ever was bestowed on a human intellect. And yet it was not only an unhappy life; it was a poor life.' Church, while paying the highest tribute to Bacon's intellectual achievements in so many different fields, argues that 'there was in Bacon's 'self' a deep and fatal flaw. He was a pleaser of men.' He believed that this work should correct the adulatory stance adopted by earlier biographers, and reveal the whole, imperfect man.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Church, Richard William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Early life
2. Bacon and Elizabeth
3. Bacon and James I
4. Bacon Solicitor-General
5. Bacon Attorney-General and Chancellor
6. Bacon's fall
7. Bacon's last years, 1621–6
8. Bacon's philosophy
9. Bacon as a writer