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DELIEZE, GILLES. Bacon, Francis. The logic of sensation.

London New York, Continuum, 2003. Cloth. With dustjacket. Hardbound. 8vo. 209 pp. (A fine copy). Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential and revolutionary philosophers of the 20th century. Francis Bacon is widely regarded as one of the most radical painters of the 20th century. This title presents a deep engagement with Bacon's work and the nature of art. Deleuze analyses the distinctive innovations that came to mark Bacon's style: the isolation of the figure, the violent deformations of the flesh, the complex use of colour, the method of chance, and the use of the triptych form. Along the way, Deleuze introduces a number of his own famous concepts, such as the body without organs and the diagram , and contrasts his own approach to painting with that of both the phenomenological and the art historical traditions. Deleuze links Bacon's work to Cezanne's notion of a logic of sensation, which reaches its summit in colour and the colouring sensation . Investigating this logic, Deleuze explores Bacon's crucial relation to past painters such as Velasquez, Cezanne and Soutine, as well as Bacon's rejection of expressionism and abstract painting. (booknr: 26373)

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Bacon, Francis: The First Statesman of Science. London: Cresset, 1960.
Umschlag berieben, papierbedingt gebräunt. - Francis Bacon has always been recognized as one of the greatest of men, but there has been remarkably little agreement on the true nature of his greatness. It is clear that Elizabeth was a ruler, Burghley a statesman, Shakespeare a dramatic poet and Drake a seaman; but what was Bacon? He was in part writer, lawyer, statesman, philosopher and scientist, but he was not entirely any one of these. The deepest aspect of his genius now seems to us to be revealed as the combination of statesmanship with science. Bacon was the first to propose the continual improvement of human life by the systematic development of science and technology, not as a Utopian dream but as practical policy. He entered politics with the aim of securing the power necessary to carry it out, and fared with spectacular success and dramatic failure. But in the course of his effort, he struggled with the fundamental problems of the relation between science and public affairs, and the moral difficulties involved, which are the dominating questions of survival in the second half of the twentieth century. Through his combined effort in science and politics, Bacon became the first of the new type of man essential in a scientific age-the Statesman of Science. By unravelling the threads of science and politics in the complex skein of Bacon's career, Mr Crowther expounds the significance of his ideas for the world in our time. The result throws light on the situation of scientists and politicians of today, who find themselves confronted with problems of the destiny of mankind, which Bacon anticipated long ago. -

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Bacon, David: The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border, University of California Press, ISBN: 0520237781
einige Lagerspuren Editorial Reviews\n\nFrom Publishers Weekly\nNormally rare firsthand accounts from Mexican workers make up most of this examination of labor struggles in the fields and factories along the U.S.-Mexican border in the 10 years since the signing of NAFTA. Bacon, an associate editor with Pacific News Service and a regular contributor to the Nation, provides exhaustive, meticulous retellings of intimidation, violence and voter fraud that reveal a pattern of corporate and government collusion to squash laborers' attempts to organize independent unions. Such tactics are nothing new in Mexican politics, but Bacon argues they have a new significance post-NAFTA: enforcing the government's neoliberal policy of suppressing wages in order to attract foreign investment. While Bacon offers little in terms of substantiating this claim, the testimony of the workers is powerful and compelling (as are Bacon's 24 b&w photos), and the chunks of Mexican labor history Bacon presents along the way are clear and accessible, making this an invaluable book for anyone interested in the human mechanics of globalization. Ironically, despite rampant suppression of workers' organizations, Bacon finds an unintended success of NAFTA in burgeoning ties between U.S. and Mexican workers, in preparation for a large-scale fight for workers' rights that will take place on the floors of the maquila plants.\nCopyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.\n\nReview\n[Bacon's] books . . . are sharp, analytical, and urgent.--Utne , ISBN-13: 9780520237780

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Zagorin, Perez: Francis Bacon. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780691059280
Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Inhalt: Introduction: Bacon's Two Lives -- Philosophy and the Reconstruction of Knowledge: The Genesis of Bacon's Project -- The Great Instauration -- Human Philosophy: Morals and Politics -- Language, Law, and History - Conclusion. - Francis Bacon (1561-1626), commonly regarded as one of the founders of the Scientific Revolution, exerted a powerful influence on the intellectual development of the modern world. He also led a remarkably varied and dramatic life as a philosopher, writer, lawyer, courtier, and statesman. Although there has been much recent scholarship on individual aspects of Bacon's career, Perez Zagorin's is the first work in many years to present a comprehensive account of the entire sweep of his thought and its enduring influence. Combining keen scholarly and psychological insights, Zagorin reveals Bacon as a man of genius, deep paradoxes, and pronounced flaws. The book begins by sketching Bacon's complex personality and troubled public career. Zagorin shows that, despite his idealistic philosophy and rare intellectual gifts, Bacon's political life was marked by continual careerism in his efforts to achieve advancement. He follows Bacon's rise at court and describes his removal from his office as England's highest j udge for taking bribes. Zagorin then examines Bacon's philosophy and theory of science in connection with his project for the promotion of scientific progress, which he called "The Great Instauration." He shows how Bacon's critical empiricism and attempt to develop a new method of discovery made a seminal contribution to the growth of science. He demonstrates Bacon's historic importance as a prophetic thinker, who, at the edge of the modern era, predicted that science would be used to prolong life, cure diseases, invent new materials, and create new weapons of destruction. Finally, the book examines Bacon's writings on such subjects as morals, politics, language, rhetoric, law, and history. Zagorin shows that Bacon was one of the great legal theorists of his day, an influential philosopher of language, and a penetrating historian. Clearly and beautifully written, the book brings out the richness, scope, and greatness of Bacon's work and draws together the many, colorful threads of an extraordinarily brilliant and many-sided mind. (Verlagstext). ISBN 9780691059280 - , ISBN: 0691059284

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