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- Title
Towards a History of Projects.
- Authors
Keller, Vera; McCormick, Ted
- Abstract
This introduction argues for the value of projecting as a category of analysis, while exploring the contexts for its emergence and spread as a genre of intellectual and practical activity in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. The emergence of the morally ambivalent figure of the "projecto" in Elizabethan and Stuart England -- initially in connection with confessional strife and attacks on corruption, and subsequently in relation to colonial expansion, experimental philosophy, and commercial and fiscal innovation -- provoked defences of projecting that articulated the relationship between private interest, individual effort, the public good, and collaborative scientific practice in new ways. German cameralists and French philosophes extended these arguments, while recuperating the figure of the projector, in the eighteenth century.
- Subjects
CORRUPTION; PROJECTORS; DEFOE, Daniel, ca. 1661-1731; GERBIER, Balthasar; D'AVENSTEIN, Georg Ludwig Schmidt
- Publication
Early Science & Medicine, 2016, Vol 21, Issue 5, p423
- ISSN
1383-7427
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/15733823-00215p01