The Advancement of Learning

Zusatztext Kiernan is especially good in tracking classical and contemporary allusions; in situating Bacon on the social and political map of his day; and in discussing Bacon's understanding of humanism, rhetoric, dialectic, and moral philosophy. Informationen zum Autor Michael Kiernan is Associate Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University, and editor of Frances Bacon: Essays (OUP/Harvard, 1985)-to be reissued as Volume XV of OFB, 1999. Klappentext This is the first critical edition since the nineteenth century of Bacon's principal philosophical work in English, The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane - traditionally known as The Advancement of Learning. Zusammenfassung An authoritative critical edition, based on fresh collation of the seventeenth century texts and documented in an extensive textual apparatus, of Francis Bacon's (1561-1626) The Advancement of Learning, the principal philosophical work in English announcing his comprehensive programme to restore and advance learning.

Product details

• Authors: Francis Bacon
• Assisted by: Kiernan Michael (Editor)
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.02.2000
• EAN: 9780198123484
• ISBN: 978-0-19-812348-4
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 224 mm x 32 mm
• Series: The Oxford Francis Bacon
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; England, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, EDUCATION / Essays, Philosophy & theory of education, Literary essays, Philosophy and theory of education, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought