{"product_id":"objectivity-in-the-making-francis-bacon-and-the-politics-of-inquiry-9780801872495","title":"Objectivity in the Making: Francis Bacon and the Politics of Inquiry","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Julie Robin Solomon\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Epistemology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow we arrived at a capacity for taking cold, hard looks at the facts of nature--and whether we ever truly have done so--are questions that continue to engage both historians of science and students of culture. Historians of modern European intellectual history commonly credit Francis Bacon with laying the groundwork for a mode of study that begins without presuppositions, religious or otherwise, the kind of searching we know as research and long have credited as being \"disinterested.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eObjectivity in the Making\u003c\/i\u003e, Julie Robin Solomon shows how \"disinterestedness\" became a dominant principle of intellectual modernity by examining Bacon's notion of scientific self-distancing against the background of early modern political ideology, socioeconomic behavior, and traditions of learning. Solomon places him between two cultures--Jacobean monarchical mercantilism and the self-distancing strategies of early-seventeenth-century traders and travelers. She shows that Bacon--by virtue of his prominent political position within the Jacobean court, familiarity with prevailing commercial practices, and humanistic learning--made his signal contributions to natural philosophy because of where he stood at a critical juncture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47614239539351,"sku":"9780801872495","price":3551.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780801872495.webp?v=1775092076","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/objectivity-in-the-making-francis-bacon-and-the-politics-of-inquiry-9780801872495","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}