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More copies of this ISBN:The New Atlantis and the City of the Sun: Two Classic Utopiasby Francis Bacon
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Two authors from The Age of Reason and Enlightenment, in keeping with the spirit of their times, envisioned their own philosophical and intellectual utopias. Tomasso Campanella, a Calabrian monk, published The City of the Sun in 1623, and Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis appeared in 1627. Campanella was a student of logic and physics who formulated the first scientifically based socialistic system--one that furnished a model for subsequent ideal communities. Bacon focused on politics and philosophy, emphasizing the duty of the state toward science. Despite the authors' differences in setting and treatment, each of these seventeenth-century classics mirrors the period's prevailing thought, reflecting the idealism of an age and its revolutionary trends in philosophy. Book News Annotation:Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis, published in 1627, and
Campanella's The City of the Sun, which appeared four years
earlier, are two of the many utopian schemes that proliferated in the
17th century. Bacon's is more of sketch, outlining the role the state
should play in promoting science, while ignoring the ways such could
be achieve, while the Calabrian monk Campanella pays more attention
to the moral and philosophical basis upon which the social order
should be premised. A brief introduction is included, taken (in
abridged form) from the 1901 Tudor Publishing Co. text that contained
these utopias, as well as Rousseau's Social Contract and More's
Utopia
Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:Two authors from The Age of Reason and Enlightenment envisioned their own philosophical and intellectual utopias. Campanella was a student of logic and physics while Bacon focused on politics and philosophy. Despite the authors' differences in setting and treatment, each of these 17th-century classics reflect the idealism of an age. Synopsis:Two authors from the Age of Reason and Enlightenment, in keeping with the spirit of their times, envisioned their own philosophical and intellectual utopias. Tomasso Campanella, a Calabrian monk, published" What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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