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On Language, Theology, and Utopia
Francis Lodwick
Edited with an Introduction and Commentary by Felicity Henderson and William Poole
456 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-922591-0
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Hardback
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24 February 2011
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- Establishes the canon and corpus of Francis Lodwick's writing
- Supplies texts of all his literary compositions
- Contains an extensive introduction connecting together Lodwick's roles as a natural philosopher, theorist of language, and highly heterodox theological theorist
- Includes extensive primary and secondary bibliographies
Francis Lodwick FRS (1619-94) was a prosperous merchant, bibliophile, writer, thinker, and member of the Royal Society. He wrote extensively on language, religion, and experimental philosophy, most of it too controversial to be safely published during his lifetime. This edition includes the first publication of his unorthodox religious works alongside groundbreaking writings on language.
Following an extensive introduction by the editors the book is divided into three parts. Part One includes A Common Writing (1647), the first English attempt at an artificial language, and the equally pioneering phonetic alphabet set out in An Essay
Towards an Universal Alphabet (1686). Part Two contains a series of linked short treatises on the nature of religion and divine revelation, including 'Of the Word of God' and 'Of the Use of Reason in Religion', in which Lodwick argues for a new understanding of the Bible, advocates a rational approach to divine worship, and seeks to reinterpret received religion for an age of reason. The final part of the book contains his unpublished utopian fiction, A Country Not Named: here he creates a world to express his most firmly-held opinions on language and religion, and in which his utopians found a church that bans the Bible. The book gives new insights into the religious aspects of the scientific revolution and throws fresh light on the early modern frame of mind. It is aimed at intellectual
and cultural historians, historians of science and linguistics, and literary scholars - indeed, at all those interested in the interplay of ideas, language, and religion in seventeenth-century EnglandReadership: Historians of Linguistics; Literary Historians; Historians of Theology; Historians of mercantilism; of free-thinking; and of heresy
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Francis Lodwick Edited with an Introduction and Commentary by Felicity Henderson and William Poole, New College, Oxford
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"The signal achievement of this impeccably-edited volume is to suggest new ways of understanding the relationships in the 17th century between natural philosophy and theology, orthodoxy and heterodoxy, print and manuscript, public and private." - Nicholas McDowell, Historiographia Linguistica "The inclusion of all of Lodwick's work, in its various stages of development, valuably demonstrates the evolution of burgeoning Enlightenment thought in a relatively unknown writer." - Alison Knight, Times Literary Supplement "This is a remarkable and very welcome volume ... Technically, the edition is of a high standard. The text and apparatus are presented separately, with both commentary and textual notes at
the end of the book, and it soon becomes intuitive to the user to flick backwards and forwards between the two ... the finishing touch is provided by a section of eight plates in full colour, most of them of manuscripts, which gives a fine sense of the material on which the volume is based. In all, this is a splendid book." - Michael Hunter, Notes and Records of the Royal Society
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General Introduction
Textual Introduction
Part I: Language-Planning
A Common Writing
The Ground-Work
An Essay Towards an Universal Alphabet
Concerning a Perfect, Universall Alfabeth
Of The Universall Language
A Designe Towards an Universall Alfabet
That the Alfabet and orthografy of the English Tongue is Defective
Part II: Theology
Certain Observations
Miscellany Discourses
'Of the Universe' and Other Essays
Part III: A Country Not Names
Part IV: Miscellaneous Texts and Correspondence
Essay on Maintaining an Army in Peace-Time
Essay on Trade
Proposals for Rebuilding London
Aphorisms
Form of Prayer
Lodwick's Correspondence
Commentaries, Textual Apparatus and Bibliographies
Index
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