Artículo
Dominating nature and colonialism: Francis Bacon’s view of Europe and the new world
Fecha de publicación:
11/2018
Editorial:
Routledge
Revista:
History Of European Ideas
ISSN:
0191-6599
e-ISSN:
1873-541X
Idioma:
Inglés
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Resumen
Francis Bacon’s works are pervaded by the firm belief that he was living in a new epoch. He thought of this epoch as based on knowledge and mechanical arts, which would permit dominion over nature. This dominion arises from mankind’s taking concrete action to improve the living conditions of humanity. Defining the nature of this action leads to individuate a plural historical subjectivity in Bacon’s thought. The different kinds of agency, and different kinds of technologies, define peoples in ethnological and spatial terms. Imperiality, that is human dominion over nature, implies the necessity of improving the conditions of the whole mankind, in a manner that opens the way of thinking in which ‘backward’ peoples are subject to this action of improvement. Colonialism is strictly related to imperiality. The idea of colonialism, in the New World in particular, rests on the assumption that human race can improve its living conditions, exercising power over nature. Therefore, imperiality and colonialism are not simply a tool of a British dominion, but elements of the new epoch that Bacon is theorising. In this sense, imperiality and colonialism are part of the philosophical structure of Bacon’s modernity.
Palabras clave:
COLONIALISM
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DOMINATION OF NATURE
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EUROPEAN MODERNITY
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IMPERIALISM
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IMPERIALITY
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Scalercio, Mauro; Dominating nature and colonialism: Francis Bacon’s view of Europe and the new world; Routledge; History Of European Ideas; 44; 8; 11-2018; 1076-1091
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