Turning Points in Natural Theology from Bacon to Darwin

The Way of the Argument from Design

S. Peterfreund (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

193 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2012
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-29168-7 (ISBN)

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Discusses crucial moments in the historical development of natural theology in England from the time of Francis Bacon to that of Charles Darwin. While the argument from design remains the rhetorical method of choice for natural theologians throughout the three centuries in question, the locus and object of design undergo a change.

Stuart Peterfreund is a professor of English at Northeastern University. He is the author of William Blake in a Newtonian World: Argument as Art Argument as Science, and Shelley among Others: The Play of the Intertext and the Idea of Language.

An Argument about the Argument from Design Natural Theology, Leading up to Bacon Getting Back to the Garden and the Temple: Bacon, the Design of the Creature, Deferral, and Instauration Leaving Bacon Behind: Robert Boyle's Legacy and the Mechanization of Natural Theology The Second Moses Reconsidered, or, Back to Bacon and Beyond: Mosaic Natural Theology in the Age of Newton Systems within Systems: From Newton to Paley From Paley to Darwin: The Design of the Macrosystem Intelligent Design?

Erscheinungsdatum	28.05.2020
Reihe/Serie	Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters
Zusatzinfo	XVII, 193 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Charles Darwin • Design • England • Francis Bacon • Issac Newton • Mosaic • Natural Theology • object • rhetoric • Temple • Theology • Time
ISBN-10	1-349-29168-4 / 1349291684
ISBN-13	978-1-349-29168-7 / 9781349291687
Zustand	Neuware