Author's inaugural dissertation, Heidelberg. / "Literatur": p. ix-xi.

Author's inaugural dissertation, Heidelberg. / "Literatur": p. ix-xi.

Neste trabalho, trazemos uma análise da obra O Progresso do Conhecimento, publicada em 1605, pelo filósofo e político Francis Bacon (1561-1626). Nosso objetivo é explorar as ideias contidas nesse importante livro de Bacon a fim de relacioná-las com intenções mais gerais desse pensador, no plano de um projeto para a ciência, e com o momento histórico em que ele viveu, em especial a Reforma Protestante e suas consequências para o Estado inglês. Para atingir nosso objetivo, fizemos inicialmente um levantamento dos modos como a historiografia da ciência tem tratado sua vida e sua obra e como a historiografia geral tem abordado a questão da Reforma Protestante na Inglaterra. A análise do livro de Bacon, ao mesmo tempo em que segue linearmente as partes da obra, priorizou algumas dimensões teóricas: o projeto de Bacon de classificação das partes do conhecimento, a questão da separação entre o conhecimento humano e divino, o problema dos sujeitos da ciência e a dignidade do conhecimento e as vantagens do conhecimento. O resultado da análise é que as ideias de Bacon sobre a ciência são também ideias e propostas sobre o funcionamento do Estado e sobre os modos de ser dos sujeitos que os possibilitariam se relacionar com essa ciência e esse Estado. Assim, sugerimos que, para Bacon, Estado, sujeitos e ciência são elementos inter-relacionados e indissociáveis / In this text, I present an analysis of the work The Advancement of Learning, published in 1605, by the philosopher and politician Francis Bacon (1561-1626). My goal is to explore the ideas that this important book by Bacon contains, with the aim of relating them to the more general intentions of this thinker, in the frame of a project for science, and with the historical moment in which he lived, especially the Protestant Reformation and its consequences to the English State. In order to attain my goal, I made a survey of the approaches that the historiography of science has treated his life and works and how the general historiography has dealt with the Protestant Reformation in England. The analysis of Bacons book, follows linearly the parts of the work, but at the same time I have given strong attention to some theoretical dimensions: Bacons project of the classification of the parts of knowledge, the issue of the separation between human and divine knowledge, the problem of the subjects of science and the dignity of knowledge and the advantages of knowledge. The results of the analysis point to understanding Bacons ideas about science as ideas e proposals about the functioning of State e about the ways of being of the subjects that might enable them to be in a relationship with this science and State. In this way, I suggest that for Bacon, State, subjects and science are interrelated and inseparable elements

Ce mémoire, en plus de proposer une première étude critique entièrement consacrée à l’œuvre de Joséphine Bacon, vise à établir un pont entre deux univers génériques apparemment distincts : le cinéma documentaire et la poésie. Bien avant de prendre officiellement la plume, l’artiste innue a appris à travailler le matériau filmique en accompagnant maints cinéastes dans leurs tournages et en réalisant ses propres films documentaires. À notre avis, dans son premier recueil de poèmes, Bâtons à message. Tshissinuatshitakana, l’empreinte fondamentale laissée par cette pratique cinématographique est perceptible : s’y construit un rapport entre l’énonciateur et l’énonciataire qui rappelle, à bien des égards, celui qui prévaut en régime documentaire. Qui plus est, une quête destinée à aller à la rencontre d’un pan spécifique du réel anime la poétesse tout au long du recueil.

The philosophy of Francis Bacon has an important and often overlooked place in the development of American political thought. John Dewey cites Bacon as the forefather of his own highly influential philosophical school, American pragmatism. I argue that, though Dewey is in many ways correct to look to Bacon as his predecessor, he overlooks or collapses certain crucial tensions in Bacon’s philosophical project. This causes Dewey to misinterpret the political implications of the philosophic project to which he himself is an heir. By exploring the tensions that Bacon maintains, and Dewey collapses, between human knowledge and human power, science and democracy, and progress in the sciences and progress within states, I hope to shed light on the true implications of Bacon’s philosophical project for American political thought. / text

Thesis advisor: Virginia Reinburg / Thesis advisor: Sarah G. Ross / Bernardino Ochino (1487-1564) has long been a misinterpreted historical figure. Even to specialists Ochino’s Siena is less well-known than Luther’s Wittenburg or Calvin’s Geneva. A once-famous Capuchin preacher turned “heretic,” Ochino was forced into exile in 1542 upon the re-establishment of the Roman Inquisition. Ochino’s life has often been defined in terms of success and failure, his exile as a personal tragedy, and his theological ideas as unclassifiable. An examination of some of his most important letters as well as a selection of his sermons, dialogues, and his catechism, however, illustrate that Ochino’s exile actually provided him with opportunities that allowed him to become the teacher of Italian reformed thought to his followers in Italy and throughout Europe. This was made possible largely by his now unimpeded access to the printing press, the medium to which he resorted after his preaching was silenced. From his state of exile he, quite literally, helped to compose the Italian Reformation and his story speaks to the growing interest among historians in conceptualizing exile and mobility as preconditions of religious transformation and the international Reformation. Ochino’s corpus of works reveals a man intimately engaged with the Protestant Reformation throughout Europe. His writings betray the influence of Luther and Calvin, while maintaining a certain Italian “anti-dogmatism” that historians have long recognized in Ochino’s work and in the Italian Reformation more broadly. Ochino’s eclecticism is a reminder that the Italian Reformation must be appreciated in its own right, as a crucial element of the international Reformation and not simply as a catalyst for the Counter or Catholic Reformation, as it is often portrayed. Ochino’s works—printed abroad and frequently transported clandestinely back to Italy—reveal the existence of a community of men and women who hoped to be agents of religious reform, not simply heretics who hoped to avoid the gaze of the Inquisition. Theirs was a religion that begged to be lived, not one that was meant to be hidden. Ochino was their leader.

Anne, Lady Bacon (c.1S2B-1610) is chiefly remembered as the translator of several important religious texts and as the mother of Francis and Anthony Bacon. This thesis seeks to re-evaluate her fulfilment of her role as a mother, translator and religious patron through an examination of her correspondence and an assessment of her published works. In doing so it demonstrates that Anne was adept at utilising epistolary conventions in order to achieve her politico-religious aims, and was far more capable at negotiating complex webs of power than has hitherto been acknowledged. Over one hundred of her letters survive, most of which are written to Anthony between the 1592 and 1596, and only a few of which have been published. I have transcribed all these extant letters, and through a close analysis of their content and material construction I offer an outline of her epistolary habits, and demonstrate how her letter-writing practice was influenced by the practical elements of sixteenth-century epistolary culture. I describe the factors that influenced Anne's relationship with her sons, and analyse how both parties performed or neglected their duties. The second half of my thesis focuses on Anne's religious patronage. I describe the iconographic significance of the female translator, and examine Anne's contribution to the nascent Protestant literary culture. Faced with a political climate that was becoming increasingly hostile to expressions of nonconformity, I look at how Anne harnessed other means by which to support the puritan cause, and assess the extent to which she directed the religious tenor of her local parishes.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1976. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 442-449).

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität zu München, 1908. / Includes bibliographical references.