Article ID: CBB075029309

A “Wild Swing to Phantsy”: The Philosophical Gardener and Emergent Experimental Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (2021)

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This essay traces the changing relationship between horticulture, agriculture, and philosophy across the seventeenth century, as the personae of the philosophical husbandman and the philosophical gardener intertwined and competed. At stake in the dynamics between them was the relationship between abstruse researches and practical applications in evolving experimental philosophy, as well as the aesthetic of experimental practices and rhetoric. Early seventeenth-century promoters of colonial projects, such as Virginian sericulture, situated the metropolitan pleasure garden, a place of whimsy and fantastical reasoning, as a realm of trial that presumed eventual utility and application to large-scale husbandry. Such views informed relationships between fanciful trials, speculative proposals, and presumptions of future utility in the development of the persona of the philosophical gardener and attendant notions of experimental philosophy over the course of the century.

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Authors & Contributors
Skeehan, Danielle C.
Anja Timmermann
Marsh, Ben
Jim Mills
Brixius, Dorit
Kerkhoff, Kathinka Sinha
Concepts
Agriculture
Colonialism
Economic botany; plant cultivation; horticulture
Plantations
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Slavery and slaves
Time Periods
19th century
17th century
18th century
20th century
16th century
Early modern
Places
Atlantic world
Great Britain
Caribbean
Atlantic Ocean
West Africa
India
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