Name: Francis Bacon and the Heroic Archetype (en Inglés)
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Author: Ryan Murtha
ISBN: 9798385278787

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Francis Bacon and the Heroic Archetype (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Resource Publications

Autor

Ryan Murtha

Año

2026

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

252

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2x1.5 cm

ISBN13

9798385278787

Francis Bacon and the Heroic Archetype (en Inglés)

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Francis Bacon and the Heroic Archetype intervenes at the intersection of intellectual history, myth theory, and the ethics of modern science by offering a radically integrated reading of Bacon's life and work. Against the prevailing tendency to treat Bacon either as a proto-positivist methodologist or as a compromised political operator, this book argues that his career exhibits a striking structural correspondence with the heroic lawgiver archetype identified by Lord Raglan and later theorists of myth. Employing the heroic pattern descriptively rather than ritualistically, the study reframes the Great Instauration as an act of epistemic lawgiving--an attempt to bind the unprecedented power of scientific knowledge to moral discipline at the moment of its emergence. By reading Bacon's intellectual triumph, political fall, and posthumous marginalization as a coherent symbolic drama rather than a biographical contradiction, the book challenges dominant narratives in Bacon scholarship, revises modern assumptions about the divorce of myth and reason, and recovers Bacon as an early and prescient critic of ungoverned technological power. In doing so, it positions Bacon not merely as a founder of modern science, but as one of its first, and most neglected, ethical legislators.