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The Renaissance, scholars have long argued, was a period beset by the loss of philosophical certainty. In Possible Knowledge, Debapriya Sarkar argues for the pivotal role of literature—what early moderns termed poesie—in the dynamic intellectual culture of this era of profound incertitude. Revealing...
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Sarkar, Debapriya, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Possible Knowledge : The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science / Debapriya Sarkar. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (280 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Edmund Spenser’s Speculative Method -- Chapter 2. William Shakespeare’s Prophetic Recipes -- Chapter 3. Francis Bacon’s “Endlesse Worke” -- Chapter 4. Margaret Cavendish’s Physical Poetics -- Chapter 5. John Milton’s Evental Poetics -- Coda. The Ethics of Poiesis -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The Renaissance, scholars have long argued, was a period beset by the loss of philosophical certainty. In Possible Knowledge, Debapriya Sarkar argues for the pivotal role of literature—what early moderns termed poesie—in the dynamic intellectual culture of this era of profound incertitude. Revealing how problems of epistemology are inextricable from questions of literary form, Sarkar offers a defense of poiesis, or literary making, as a vital philosophical endeavor.Working across a range of genres, Sarkar theorizes “possible knowledge” as an intellectual paradigm crafted in and through literary form. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers such as Spenser, Bacon, Shakespeare, Cavendish, and Milton marshalled the capacious concept of the “possible,” defined by Philip Sidney as what “may be and should be,” to construct new theories of physical and metaphysical reality. These early modern thinkers mobilized the imaginative habits of thought constitutive to major genres of literary writing—including epic, tragedy, romance, lyric, and utopia—in order to produce knowledge divorced from historical truth and empirical fact by envisioning states of being untethered from “nature” or reality.Approaching imaginative modes such as hypothesis, conjecture, prediction, and counterfactuals as instruments of possible knowledge, Sarkar exposes how the speculative allure of the “possible” lurks within scientific experiment, induction, and theories of probability. In showing how early modern literary writing sought to grapple with the challenge of forging knowledge in an uncertain, perhaps even incomprehensible world, Possible Knowledge also highlights its most audacious intellectual ambition: its claim that while natural philosophy, or what we today term science, might explain the physical world, literature could remake reality. Enacting a history of ideas that centers literary studies, Possible Knowledge suggests that what we have termed a history of science might ultimately be a history of the imagination. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance. bisacsh Bacon. Cavendish. Defense of Poesie. Faerie Queene. Macbeth. Milton. Novum Organum. Paradise Lost. Shakespeare. Sidney. Spenser. allegory. conjecture. counterfactual. experience. experiment. history of science. hypothesis. imagination. literary form. literature and intellectual history. literature and science. natural philosophy. poetics. poetry. possible worlds. prediction. reality. scientific method. speculative. worldbuilding. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary Studies 2023 English 9783111319186 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary Studies 2023 9783111318264 ZDB-23-DSP Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110791372 https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512823363?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781512823363 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781512823363/original |
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