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What’s the point of a history of ideas? Or, on Bacon and the cyclops
Date: | 06 October 2017 |
Author: | Laura Georgescu |
There’s no history of the world without a history of ideas. Or even, perhaps – without a history of ideas, all knowledge is kind of useless. These seem to be the consequences of a brief, somewhat cryptic, and deceptively simple remark that Francis Bacon...