Culture of Accidents: Unexpected Knowledges in Early Modern EnglandStanford University Press, 1 de set. 2002 - 240 pàgines Collapsing buildings, unexpected meetings in the marketplace, monstrous births, encounters with pirates at sea—these and other unforeseen “accidents” at the turn of the seventeenth century in England acquired unprecedented significance in the early modern philosophical and cultural imagination. Drawing on intellectual history, cultural criticism, and rhetorical theory, this book chronicles the narrative transformation of “accident” from a philosophical dead end to an astonishing occasion for revelation and wonder in early modern religious life, dramatic practice, and experimental philosophy. Embracing the notion that accident was a concept with both learned and popular appeal, the book traces its evolution through Aristotelian, Scholastic, and Calvinist thought into a range of early modern texts. It suggests that for many English writers, accidental events raised fundamental questions about the nature of order in the world and the way that order should be apprehended. Alongside texts by such canonical figures as Shakespeare and Bacon, this study draws on several lesser-known authors of sensational news accounts about accidents that occurred around the turn of the seventeenth century. The result is a cultural anatomy of accidents as philosophical problem, theatrical conceit, spiritual landmark, and even a prototype for Baconian “experiment,” one that provides a fresh interpretation of the early modern engagement with contingency in intellectual and cultural terms. |
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... providence of God , as it is taught in Scripture , is opposed to fortune and fortuitous accidents , " a dictum which suggested that the very idea of accidents was a theological ab- surdity . On the other hand , accidents had for ...
... providence , and a genre of popular wonder literature that chronicled " accidents " — this volume is a genealogy of an idea , or in the more traditional sense , an intellectual history.13 But the intellectual ferment over these events ...
... providence affected the way in which accidents were represented by religious writers , philosophers and dramatists who placed them on public view . No doubt such a belief encouraged indi- viduals to attend to unexpected events and , at ...
... providence , however , since it is the quality of contrivance itself — what Calvin de- scribes as God's ability to " dispose ... al things in fittest opportuni- tie s — that makes the accident a conspicuous form of divine action.22 Like ...
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Early Modern Accidents and an Aristotelian Tradition | 17 |
Exemplary Accidents from Cicero to Jean Calvin | 42 |
The Avoidance of Ends in The Comedy of Errors | 62 |
Hamlet Interrupted | 82 |
Accident and the Invention of Knowledge in Francis | 111 |
The Blackfriars Accident | 130 |
Notes | 159 |
Bibliography | 205 |
Index | 219 |
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