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The Sixteenth century journal, 1982
... The discourse of modernism. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Reiss, Timothy J. (b. 1942,... more ... The discourse of modernism. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Reiss, Timothy J. (b. 1942, d. ----. PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press (Ithaca). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1982. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0801414644 ). VOLUME/EDITION: PAGES (INTRO/BODY): 410 p. ...
The Sixteenth century journal, 1999
Page 1. I - i .' I : n KNOWLEDGE, DISCOVERY AND IMAGINATION IN EARLYMODERN EUROPE THE RI... more Page 1. I - i .' I : n KNOWLEDGE, DISCOVERY AND IMAGINATION IN EARLYMODERN EUROPE THE RISE OF AESTHETIC RATIONALISM TIMOTHY J. REISS Page 2. Page 3. Recent explanations of changes in early modern ...
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is required is a passion for the truth." "A passion for the truth," said Henrietta meditatively. ... more is required is a passion for the truth." "A passion for the truth," said Henrietta meditatively. "Yes, I can see how dangerous that might make you. Would the truth satisfy you?" He looked at her curiously. "What do you mean, Miss Savernake?" "I can understand that you would want to know. But would knowl edge be enough? Would you have to go a step further and translate knowledge into action?"-A gatha Christie, The Hollow Robinson Crusoe is for classical political economy what the statue, the first man, will be for the theory of knowledge.-Pierre Macherey, Pour une theorie de la production litteraire Robinson Crusoe starts out upon his long, weary, and soli tary journey to ultimate prosperity with a thoroughgoing rejection of family, and particularly of father. His mother, indeed, is included in that rejection only inasmuch as she functions as his father's deputy. Crusoe sets out, as he later remarks, "in order to act the Rebel to their Authority."1 The rebellion is, then, conscious and deliberate. This beginning is, of course, exceedingly well known, and it has had to withstand the commentary of almost all those who have writ ten on the matter of Robinson Crusoe. For reasons which previous chapters will already have made clear we, in turn, cannot pass by without comment. For Crusoe is written in the light of and in re sponse to a discursive order which is now already established. We may say, indeed, that that is what Crusoe is 'all about.' The i. Daniel Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, ed. ]. Donald Crowley (London, i972), p. 40 (my italics). Though I have used the Everyman edition for The Farther Adventures, I have referred to this Oxford edition for Crusoe because it maintains, by and large, the capitalization, spell ing, and punctuation of the first edition of i 719, and these will occasionally be neces sary to the discussion.
Cornell University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2018
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Mar 13, 1997
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It appeared to us a land without memories, regrets, and hopes; a land where each sunrise, like a ... more It appeared to us a land without memories, regrets, and hopes; a land where each sunrise, like a dazzling act of special creation, was disconnected from the eve and the morrow.-J oseph Conrad, Karain: A Memory The Masculine Birth of Time 1 g g method. Now I certainly mean what I have said to be understood of them all" (VIII.159; NO, I.cxxvii).1 Second (and I will come back at some length to this matter), we may be tempted to find rather strange the application of the word 'empirical' to a science that begins with axioms and descends to "particulars" (as he calls them). Third, we should never forget that Bacon was first and foremost a lawyer and statesman-politician, rather, in modern parlance. He was a Member of Parliament from the Elizabethan era, and, after 1607, successively Solicitor General, Attorney General, Lord Keeper, and finally, in 1618, Lord Chancel lor of England. Bacon himself and his contemporaries viewed his work as at least the prolegomenon to a complete philosophical system. The system was inseparably linked with its author's legal and political activities as the previous chapter has suggested. When he insists that the sin gle aim of this system-and of all philosophy in general-is the betterment of human life and society, he has the right to expect us to understand such a statement as it comes from a man profoundly immersed in the life of his times, political and social. No doubt that is why the intellectual weight carried by Bacon for his immediate successors was not at all reduced by his political fall in 162 1. Charles Webster has shown convincingly that if there is one single voice that resounds through the intellectual, social, and political revolutions of seventeenth-century England, it is indeed Bacon's.2 In this respect critics often mention the Royal Society-as did the previous chapter. Webster emphasizes, rather, the many reforms in medicine, educa tion, and social and political institutions. He notes that Bacon was perhaps more immediately important in these areas than he was ever to be in the natural sciences. It is certainly the nineteenth century that insisted on the 'scientific' character of the Chancellor's work, the century during which the dominance of the model drawn from 'experimental science' reached L I have used throughout the following edition: The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, 15 vols. (Boston, 186 1-64). In the references, the first two figures refer to the volume and page, the letters to the precise work (here, NO, New Organon), the subsequent figures to book, section, and/or paragraph, according to the organization of the work in question. The first reference in the text will give the complete title of a work, followed by the initials(s) I will subsequently use. Quotations from the Redargutio philosophiarum, the Cogitata et visa, and the Temporis partus masculus, are taken from the translations by Benjamin Farrington in his The Philosophy of Francis Bacon (1964; rpt. Chicago, 1966). Refer ences, however, are to The Works as for all other writings. 2.
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In what follows, double quotation marks indicate citations of other authors, terms used in a comm... more In what follows, double quotation marks indicate citations of other authors, terms used in a commonly accepted sense to which I am referring as quotations (though no particular source may be provided), or, in some few cases, phrases cited from earlier parts of my book. Single marks, except when they indicate a quotation within a quotation, are used for other emphases-most often either to in dicate the inappropriateness of some habitually used term or to signal that a term taken from one discursive logic (or class of discourse, as it will be called hereafter) is being unavoidably but unsuitably ap plied to a different such logic.
Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Oct 1, 1993
Cornell University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2018
The idea of all de scription and observation as "theory-laden" is the basic matter of this book. 4.
Cornell University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2018
Up till now I have not emphasized a very remarkable characteristic of the Prometheus myth: namely... more Up till now I have not emphasized a very remarkable characteristic of the Prometheus myth: namely that it is an entirely masculine one.-Karl Abraham, Traum und Mythos We propose, then, to place together under the name of the Pro metheus complex all those tendencies which impel us to know as much as our fathers, more than our fathers, as much as our teachers, more than our teachers.-Gaston Bachelard, La psychanalyse du f eu
Modern Language Quarterly, 2014
By C h ris to p h e r B raid er. Toronto: U n iv e rs ity o f Toronto P re s s , 2 0 1 2. x ii + ... more By C h ris to p h e r B raid er. Toronto: U n iv e rs ity o f Toronto P re s s , 2 0 1 2. x ii + 3 4 0 pp.
Introduction Part I. Problematising the Language Arts: 1. Grammarians' dreams 2. Grammarians&... more Introduction Part I. Problematising the Language Arts: 1. Grammarians' dreams 2. Grammarians' nightmares Part II. Passages: 3. Rhetoric and politics 4. Method and knowledge Part III. Mathematics, Music, and Rational Aesthetics: 5. Quadrivial pursuits 6. Bridging effects 7. Musical elaborations 8. Well-tempered imagining Bibliography Index.
Routledge eBooks, May 15, 2017
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, Mar 1, 2022
This essay tracks Kamau Brathwaite’s life, his poetic and critical writing, and his travails and ... more This essay tracks Kamau Brathwaite’s life, his poetic and critical writing, and his travails and thinking, from youth and early career—in Barbados, England, Ghana, and the Caribbean, but mainly from his arrival at New York University in 1991—through his retirement in 2013 and return to Barbados, up to his death in 2020. It especially follows Kamau from his low “time of salt” of the late 1980s in Jamaica through the stunning critical and poetic burgeoning from the 1990s on, with such works as Barabajan Poems; the two-volume MR; the prize-winning Born to Slow Horses; and Elegguas and his unpublished third poetry trilogy, Missa Solemnis, Rwanda Poems, and Dead Man Witness, commemorating and trying to rise beyond what he called his “cultural lynching.” The essay looks at Brathwaite’s online/print Sycorax voice and the politico-philosophico-cultural concept of tidalectics that he developed over these years to create an ongoing Caribbean-based decolonizing of mind, spirit, and material life.
Renaissance Quarterly, 1994
The American Historical Review, Dec 1, 1999
Translator's Note Introduction 1: Infinity Eliminated or, Huygens's Theory of the Motion ... more Translator's Note Introduction 1: Infinity Eliminated or, Huygens's Theory of the Motion of Heavy Bodies 1: Establishing the General Fact of Gravity 2: Mathematical Speculations about Curvilinear Falls 3: The Deductive Scheme of the Science of Motion of Heavy Bodies 2: First and Last Ratios in the Newtonian Theory of Central Forces 1: The Construction of Circular Motion 2: Mechanist Interlude: Centrifugal Force and Weight 3: The Deductive Scheme of Newton's Principia 3: The Science of Motion in the Workshops of Infinity 1: Satisfying Reason 2: Ratios of the Beginnings, Ends, and Continuous Evolution of Motions 4: Motion Algorithmized 1: Introduction and Import of the Leibnizian Calculus 2: The New Algorithmic Science of Motion Epilogue: Fontenelle and the Reasons of Infinity 1: The Mathematics of Infinity 2: Mathematical Physics and the Rationalization of Infinites Notes Bibliography Index
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Mar 13, 1997
The Sixteenth century journal, 1982
... The discourse of modernism. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Reiss, Timothy J. (b. 1942,... more ... The discourse of modernism. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Reiss, Timothy J. (b. 1942, d. ----. PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press (Ithaca). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1982. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0801414644 ). VOLUME/EDITION: PAGES (INTRO/BODY): 410 p. ...
The Sixteenth century journal, 1999
Page 1. I - i .' I : n KNOWLEDGE, DISCOVERY AND IMAGINATION IN EARLYMODERN EUROPE THE RI... more Page 1. I - i .' I : n KNOWLEDGE, DISCOVERY AND IMAGINATION IN EARLYMODERN EUROPE THE RISE OF AESTHETIC RATIONALISM TIMOTHY J. REISS Page 2. Page 3. Recent explanations of changes in early modern ...
Cornell University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2018
is required is a passion for the truth." "A passion for the truth," said Henrietta meditatively. ... more is required is a passion for the truth." "A passion for the truth," said Henrietta meditatively. "Yes, I can see how dangerous that might make you. Would the truth satisfy you?" He looked at her curiously. "What do you mean, Miss Savernake?" "I can understand that you would want to know. But would knowl edge be enough? Would you have to go a step further and translate knowledge into action?"-A gatha Christie, The Hollow Robinson Crusoe is for classical political economy what the statue, the first man, will be for the theory of knowledge.-Pierre Macherey, Pour une theorie de la production litteraire Robinson Crusoe starts out upon his long, weary, and soli tary journey to ultimate prosperity with a thoroughgoing rejection of family, and particularly of father. His mother, indeed, is included in that rejection only inasmuch as she functions as his father's deputy. Crusoe sets out, as he later remarks, "in order to act the Rebel to their Authority."1 The rebellion is, then, conscious and deliberate. This beginning is, of course, exceedingly well known, and it has had to withstand the commentary of almost all those who have writ ten on the matter of Robinson Crusoe. For reasons which previous chapters will already have made clear we, in turn, cannot pass by without comment. For Crusoe is written in the light of and in re sponse to a discursive order which is now already established. We may say, indeed, that that is what Crusoe is 'all about.' The i. Daniel Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, ed. ]. Donald Crowley (London, i972), p. 40 (my italics). Though I have used the Everyman edition for The Farther Adventures, I have referred to this Oxford edition for Crusoe because it maintains, by and large, the capitalization, spell ing, and punctuation of the first edition of i 719, and these will occasionally be neces sary to the discussion.
Cornell University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2018
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Mar 13, 1997
Cornell University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2018
It appeared to us a land without memories, regrets, and hopes; a land where each sunrise, like a ... more It appeared to us a land without memories, regrets, and hopes; a land where each sunrise, like a dazzling act of special creation, was disconnected from the eve and the morrow.-J oseph Conrad, Karain: A Memory The Masculine Birth of Time 1 g g method. Now I certainly mean what I have said to be understood of them all" (VIII.159; NO, I.cxxvii).1 Second (and I will come back at some length to this matter), we may be tempted to find rather strange the application of the word 'empirical' to a science that begins with axioms and descends to "particulars" (as he calls them). Third, we should never forget that Bacon was first and foremost a lawyer and statesman-politician, rather, in modern parlance. He was a Member of Parliament from the Elizabethan era, and, after 1607, successively Solicitor General, Attorney General, Lord Keeper, and finally, in 1618, Lord Chancel lor of England. Bacon himself and his contemporaries viewed his work as at least the prolegomenon to a complete philosophical system. The system was inseparably linked with its author's legal and political activities as the previous chapter has suggested. When he insists that the sin gle aim of this system-and of all philosophy in general-is the betterment of human life and society, he has the right to expect us to understand such a statement as it comes from a man profoundly immersed in the life of his times, political and social. No doubt that is why the intellectual weight carried by Bacon for his immediate successors was not at all reduced by his political fall in 162 1. Charles Webster has shown convincingly that if there is one single voice that resounds through the intellectual, social, and political revolutions of seventeenth-century England, it is indeed Bacon's.2 In this respect critics often mention the Royal Society-as did the previous chapter. Webster emphasizes, rather, the many reforms in medicine, educa tion, and social and political institutions. He notes that Bacon was perhaps more immediately important in these areas than he was ever to be in the natural sciences. It is certainly the nineteenth century that insisted on the 'scientific' character of the Chancellor's work, the century during which the dominance of the model drawn from 'experimental science' reached L I have used throughout the following edition: The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, 15 vols. (Boston, 186 1-64). In the references, the first two figures refer to the volume and page, the letters to the precise work (here, NO, New Organon), the subsequent figures to book, section, and/or paragraph, according to the organization of the work in question. The first reference in the text will give the complete title of a work, followed by the initials(s) I will subsequently use. Quotations from the Redargutio philosophiarum, the Cogitata et visa, and the Temporis partus masculus, are taken from the translations by Benjamin Farrington in his The Philosophy of Francis Bacon (1964; rpt. Chicago, 1966). Refer ences, however, are to The Works as for all other writings. 2.
Cornell University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2018
In what follows, double quotation marks indicate citations of other authors, terms used in a comm... more In what follows, double quotation marks indicate citations of other authors, terms used in a commonly accepted sense to which I am referring as quotations (though no particular source may be provided), or, in some few cases, phrases cited from earlier parts of my book. Single marks, except when they indicate a quotation within a quotation, are used for other emphases-most often either to in dicate the inappropriateness of some habitually used term or to signal that a term taken from one discursive logic (or class of discourse, as it will be called hereafter) is being unavoidably but unsuitably ap plied to a different such logic.
Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Oct 1, 1993
Cornell University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2018
The idea of all de scription and observation as "theory-laden" is the basic matter of this book. 4.
Cornell University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2018
Up till now I have not emphasized a very remarkable characteristic of the Prometheus myth: namely... more Up till now I have not emphasized a very remarkable characteristic of the Prometheus myth: namely that it is an entirely masculine one.-Karl Abraham, Traum und Mythos We propose, then, to place together under the name of the Pro metheus complex all those tendencies which impel us to know as much as our fathers, more than our fathers, as much as our teachers, more than our teachers.-Gaston Bachelard, La psychanalyse du f eu
Modern Language Quarterly, 2014
By C h ris to p h e r B raid er. Toronto: U n iv e rs ity o f Toronto P re s s , 2 0 1 2. x ii + ... more By C h ris to p h e r B raid er. Toronto: U n iv e rs ity o f Toronto P re s s , 2 0 1 2. x ii + 3 4 0 pp.
Introduction Part I. Problematising the Language Arts: 1. Grammarians' dreams 2. Grammarians&... more Introduction Part I. Problematising the Language Arts: 1. Grammarians' dreams 2. Grammarians' nightmares Part II. Passages: 3. Rhetoric and politics 4. Method and knowledge Part III. Mathematics, Music, and Rational Aesthetics: 5. Quadrivial pursuits 6. Bridging effects 7. Musical elaborations 8. Well-tempered imagining Bibliography Index.
Routledge eBooks, May 15, 2017
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, Mar 1, 2022
This essay tracks Kamau Brathwaite’s life, his poetic and critical writing, and his travails and ... more This essay tracks Kamau Brathwaite’s life, his poetic and critical writing, and his travails and thinking, from youth and early career—in Barbados, England, Ghana, and the Caribbean, but mainly from his arrival at New York University in 1991—through his retirement in 2013 and return to Barbados, up to his death in 2020. It especially follows Kamau from his low “time of salt” of the late 1980s in Jamaica through the stunning critical and poetic burgeoning from the 1990s on, with such works as Barabajan Poems; the two-volume MR; the prize-winning Born to Slow Horses; and Elegguas and his unpublished third poetry trilogy, Missa Solemnis, Rwanda Poems, and Dead Man Witness, commemorating and trying to rise beyond what he called his “cultural lynching.” The essay looks at Brathwaite’s online/print Sycorax voice and the politico-philosophico-cultural concept of tidalectics that he developed over these years to create an ongoing Caribbean-based decolonizing of mind, spirit, and material life.
Renaissance Quarterly, 1994
The American Historical Review, Dec 1, 1999
Translator's Note Introduction 1: Infinity Eliminated or, Huygens's Theory of the Motion ... more Translator's Note Introduction 1: Infinity Eliminated or, Huygens's Theory of the Motion of Heavy Bodies 1: Establishing the General Fact of Gravity 2: Mathematical Speculations about Curvilinear Falls 3: The Deductive Scheme of the Science of Motion of Heavy Bodies 2: First and Last Ratios in the Newtonian Theory of Central Forces 1: The Construction of Circular Motion 2: Mechanist Interlude: Centrifugal Force and Weight 3: The Deductive Scheme of Newton's Principia 3: The Science of Motion in the Workshops of Infinity 1: Satisfying Reason 2: Ratios of the Beginnings, Ends, and Continuous Evolution of Motions 4: Motion Algorithmized 1: Introduction and Import of the Leibnizian Calculus 2: The New Algorithmic Science of Motion Epilogue: Fontenelle and the Reasons of Infinity 1: The Mathematics of Infinity 2: Mathematical Physics and the Rationalization of Infinites Notes Bibliography Index
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Mar 13, 1997