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100 1 $aStillman, Robert E.,$d1954-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85104979
245 14 $aThe new philosophy and universal languages in seventeenth-century England :$bBacon, Hobbes, and Wilkins /$cRobert E. Stillman.
260 $aLewisburg, PA :$bBucknell University Press ;$aLondon, England ;$aCranbury, NJ :$bAssociated University Presses,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $a359 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction. The Lamentations of Comenius: Reconfiguring the Political in Seventeenth-Century Language Theory --$g1.$tNatural Philosophy and the Politics of Jacobean Intervention --$g2.$tLanguage and the Natural Philosophy of the Lord Chancellor --$g3.$tThe Universal Philosophy of Politics and Monsters of Metaphor --$g4.$tThe Logic and Language of Leviathan: From Monstrous Metaphor to Civil Philosophy --$g5.$tThe New Philosophy of the Fiscal-Military State: Cultural Politics and the Language of Interest --$g6.$tInterest Achieved: The Royal Society and the Political Concernments of Communications --$g7.$tA Center Inside the Center: Wilkins and the Philosophical Language --$tConclusion From Lamentations to Laughter.
520 $aRobert E. Stillman's book is an effort to restore the neglected history of those new philosophies of seventeenth-century England that sought to align themselves not with radical ideologies, but with the conservative interests of centralizing state power. Against the background of England's universal language movement, his study traces the development of three distinguishable philosophical projects, organized upon three distinguishable theories of language.
520 8 $aIn 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.
520 8 $aThat saving form of knowledge, as it develops in the lines of linguistic thought that extend from Bacon's Instauration to Wilkins's Philosophical Language, is both a product of and one potent agent in producing the emerging, scientistically designed, modern state.
650 0 $aLanguage, Universal$xHistory.
650 0 $aPhilosophy, English$y17th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100906
650 0 $aScience$xPhilosophy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118582
650 0 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004669
650 0 $aLanguage and languages$xPolitical aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074575
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1603-1714.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056891
600 10 $aBacon, Francis,$d1561-1626.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79100235
600 10 $aHobbes, Thomas,$d1588-1679.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059190
600 10 $aWilkins, John,$d1614-1672.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50024704
852 00 $bglx$hPM8009$i.S84 1995