Francis Bacon and Jacobean legitimation

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  • José María Rodríguez García

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14198/raei.1997.10.12

Keywords:

Bacon, Francis, Pensamiento político, Legitimación, Institucionalización, Jacobitas

Abstract

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) maintained a lifelong interest in the institutional implementation of experimental science. What changed over the years were the rhetorical strategies employed to give this project legitimacy. I systematize those changes by dividing Bacon's works into three groups according to three criteria: what rite of officialization is enacted in each text (e.g., conversion, fatherly generation, royal delegation); who the inscribed addressee is (e.g., an imagined audience of sympathetic disciples, the monarch, posterity); and what the status is of the invoked philosophical, religious, and political authorities. In this manner, I isolate three distinct versions of Bacon's rhetoric of legitimation.

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30-11-1997

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Rodríguez García, José María. 1997. “Francis Bacon and Jacobean Legitimation”. Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina De Estudios Ingleses, no. 10 (November):163-81. https://doi.org/10.14198/raei.1997.10.12.

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