The New Philosophy and Universal Languages in Seventeenth-century England: Bacon, Hobbes, and Wilkins

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Bucknell University Press, 1995 - 359 lappuses
In all three, a more perfect language comprises both a model and a means for achieving a more perfect philosophy, and that philosophy, in turn, a vehicle for promoting political authority in the state. Those three projects are the new philosophies of Lord Chancellor Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, and Bishop John Wilkins, all of which can be usefully understood in the broader context of the century's cultural politics and in the more specific circumstances of the century's fascination with the construction of a universal language. Bacon, Hobbes, and Wilkins construct philosophies out of deeply held convictions about the need to provide a saving form of knowledge to remedy cultural crises.

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Preface
9
The Lamentations of Comenius Reconfiguring the Political in SeventeenthCentury Language Theory
29
Bacon and the Advent of Universal Languages
53
Natural Philosophy and the Politics of Jacobean Intervention
55
Language and the Natural Philosophy of the Lord Chancellor
87
Hobbes and the State of the Universal Language
113
The Universal Philosophy of Politics and Monsters of Metaphor
115
The Logic and Language of Leviathan From Monstrous Metaphor to Civil Philosophy
145
The New Philosophy of the FiscalMilitary State Cultural Politics and the Language of Interest
179
Interest Achieved The Royal Society and the Political Concernments of Communications
208
A Center Inside the Center Wilkins and the Philosophical Language
228
From Lamentations to Laughter
263
Notes
269
Select Bibliography
322
Index
347
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Wilkins and the Making of the Universal Language
177

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