"Literate Experience" argues for the existence of certain shared patterns of intellectual association in the English 17th century, patterns that follow the outlines of Bacon's project of epistemological reform. Bacon's project offered a theory of how knowing as a private act could be transformed into a public one, an act related to the creation and maintenance of public authority. The question thus becomes, how did thinkers in the period reimagine civil society as a polity of knowledge? This study traces out a variety of answers to that question, ranging from the Royal Society's communal rhetoric to the work of four literary writers who, in a variety of ways, problematize the notion that political society exists as a community of shared knowledge.
- ISBN10 0312293518
- ISBN13 9780312293512
- Publish Date 3 August 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 May 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St Martin's Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 296
- Language English