Francis Bacon and the Heroic Archetype: The Greatest Story Never Told

Francis Bacon and the Heroic Archetype intervenes at the intersection of intellectual history, myth theory, and the ethics of modern science by offering a radically integrated reading of Bacon’s life and work. Against the prevailing tendency to treat Bacon either as a proto-positivist methodologist or as a compromised political operator, this book argues that his career exhibits a striking structural correspondence with the heroic lawgiver archetype identified by Lord Raglan and later theor...