베이컨에 대한 페미니스트들의 비판과 베이컨의 수사학 = The Feminist Criticism of Francis Bacon and the Uses of Metaphors in His Logic

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This essay examines a series of feminist criticism against the Baconian project of "Great Instauration" whose main target has been on the so called 'Baconian masculine violence of Nature'. With general emphasis on Francis Bacon's idea of 'fact' or factual knowledge in its historical formation, my arguments are put forward the following three points. First, the feminists' criticism can be considered as a result of their misinterpretation of Baconian juridical metaphors. Second, Bacon's juridical metaphors were the rhetorical devices to have contemporary readers understood his new idea of fact or factual knowledge. Third and finally, the feminist critics properly pinned out Bacon's responsibility of feminization of 'passions' but missed the unique meaning of his identification of an intrinsic drive to utility as a dominant passion. To make up for this missing point, I propose a new conception of 'rhetoric of utility' by which I mean a long-term Western political strategy of harnessing all the other violent passions with a persuasive and strong but calm and nonviolent passion for 'utility'. This conception inspired from Quentin Skinner's study on Thomas Hobbes can be supported by the 16th-17th century common use of a figure, 'paradiastole.'

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. 글머리에
• 2. 논리학과 수사학의 상보성
• 3. 페미니스트들의 베이컨 비판
• 4. 베이컨의 효용의 수사학 - 결론을 대신하여
• 참고문헌
• Abstract