This essay critically examines three representative contributions to the matters of scientific modernity with emphasis on the Baconian concept of knowledge/power. Against the feminist criticism of the sexist nature of Baconian science represented by C ...

This essay critically examines three representative contributions to the matters of scientific modernity with emphasis on the Baconian concept of knowledge/power. Against the feminist criticism of the sexist nature of Baconian science represented by Carolyn Merchant, the 'gentlemen thesis' of Steven Shapin focused on the classist nature of it, and the nationalist/imperialist impulses of it mentioned by Benjamin Farrington, Friedrich Heer, Julian Martin et al., I try to reinterpret the progressive nature and modernity of Baconian science. I argues that the critics of Bacon have made attention to the symmetry in the analogical transition from social elements of power such as sexim, classism, and nationalism/imperialism to the
natural world, that is, the extension of those social elements to the natural world through experiment, establishing-process of natural facts or truths, exploitation of natural resources, and so on. In contrast to their social constructivism, I analyse the asymmetry of that kind of analogy with underscoring that the idea of progress was being formed within such space of difference between the social elements and the natural elements. Although Bacon often mentions the masculinity and gentlemanhood of natural science and stresses on the 'greatness of state', it never means that his natural science and idea of progress is relied on sexim, classim, or nationalism/imperialism.

1.서론:근대 형성기의 역사세계와 자연세계
2.베이컨에 대한 구성주의적 비판들
3.지식,권력, 그리고 진보
결론

1.서론:근대 형성기의 역사세계와 자연세계
2.베이컨에 대한 구성주의적 비판들
3.지식,권력, 그리고 진보
결론