Science, Faith, and Politics: Francis Bacon and the Utopian Roots of the Modern Age; A Commentary on Bacon's Advancement of Learning

by Jerry Weinberger

Jerry Weinberger here seeks to establish Francis Bacon's rightful place among the founders--with Machiavelli and Hobbes--of the modern political tradition, claiming that Bacon's view of the sources of the modern age has great resonance for the problems of our contemporary scientific society.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801418178
• ISBN13: 9780801418174
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.