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The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France (Paperback)
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The Paradoxes of Ignorance in Early Modern England and France (Paperback)
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In the early modern period, ignorance was commonly perceived as a
sin, a flaw, a defect, and even a threat to religion and the social
order. Yet praises of ignorance were also expressed in the same
context. Reclaiming the long-lasting legacy of medieval doctrines
of ignorance and taking a comparative perspective, Sandrine
Parageau tells the history of the apparently counter-intuitive
moral, cognitive and epistemological virtues attributed to
ignorance in the long seventeenth century (1580s-1700) in England
and in France. With close textual analysis of hitherto neglected
sources and a reassessment of canonical philosophical works by
Montaigne, Bacon, Descartes, Locke, and others, Parageau
specifically examines the role of ignorance in the production of
knowledge, identifying three common virtues of ignorance as a mode
of wisdom, a principle of knowledge, and an epistemological
instrument, in philosophical and theological works. How could an
essentially negative notion be turned into something profitable and
even desirable? Taken in the context of Renaissance humanism, the
Reformation and the "Scientific Revolution"—which all called for
a redefinition and reaffirmation of knowledge—ignorance, Parageau
finds, was not dismissed in the early modern quest for renewed ways
of thinking and knowing. On the contrary, it was assimilated into
the philosophical and scientific discourses of the time. The
rehabilitation of ignorance emerged as a paradoxical cornerstone of
the nascent modern science.
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