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New Publication: “Janus of Imagination: Francis Bacon’s Theory of Imagination and the Wisdom of the Ancients”, by David Hurley
A basic version of David Hurley’s Master’s thesis, Janus of Imagination: Francis Bacon’s theory of imagination and the Wisdom of the Ancients is now available on this website in PDF format. The full text of the thesis and the complete bibliography are included. Continue reading
Janus of Imagination: Francis Bacon’s Theory of Imagination and the Wisdom of the Ancients, by D. P. Hurley
In this dissertation I discuss some aspects of Bacon’s philosophical, and prudential “doubleness” in relation to his theory of the imagination, and in relation to the development of his attitude to fable in the years that led up to the publication of De Sapientia Veterum Liber in 1609. Continue reading
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