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Publication Date: 2007-May
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The Culture of Science and the Rhetoric of Scientism: From Francis Bacon to the Darwin Fish
Lessl, Thomas M.
Quarterly Journal of Speech, v93 n2 p123-149 May 2007
The culture of modern science continues to establish its public identity by appealing to values and historical conceptions that reflect its appropriation of various religious ideals during its formative period, most especially in the rhetoric of Francis Bacon. These elements have persisted because they continue to achieve similar goals, but the scientific culture's growing need for autonomy has required their secularization. The Darwin fish emblem manifests this secular reshaping. This essay shows this by tracing out the lineaments of this older Baconian world view in the scientistic ideology of those whose identity is compressed into this symbol. (Contains 1 figure and 74 notes.)
Descriptors: Sciences, World Views, Rhetoric, Cultural Influences, Evolution, Parody, Semiotics, Religious Factors, Group Unity, Ideology
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