Eutopia of Empire: Francis Bacon’s Short View and the Imperial and Colonial Background to the New Atlantis

2022/08/22 by Samuel Garrett Zeitlin · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Historical Art and Culture Studies #Historical Philosophy and Science #Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

paper · doi:10.1177/10659129221121103

openalex publication_date 2022/08/22 · openalex created_date 2022/08/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

The present article considers Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis against the backdrop of Bacon’s Short View to be taken of Great Britain and Spain, one of Bacon’s least studied and most imperially audacious and bellicose texts. In the Short View to be taken of Great Britain and Spain, Bacon argues for a naval war and blockade of both the Iberian Peninsula and Spanish colonies in the Americas, advocating the British seizure of the latter. The article argues that the fulfillment of these imperials and colonial proposals is, in Bacon’s view, a prerequisite and presupposition of the action of Bacon’s New Atlantis.

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• Check out this recent article, “Eutopia of Empire: Francis Bacon’s Short View and the Imperial and Colonial Background to the New Atlantis,” published in Political Research Quarterly by Samuel Garrett [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]

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