Books by Paul A. Olson

Offers an account of Shakespeare's comic transcendence, showing how Shakespeare, by taking on the great themes of his time, elevated comedy from a mere mid-level literary form to its own form of greatness - on par with epic and tragedy.

Examines Baconian utopias-blueprints for a scientific sociology of knowledge that founded a new social and economic world in the 17th century.

Addresses a broad array of topics in education, the natural world, and medieval intellectual history. This book examines a philosophy of education that originated with the ancient Greeks and that reached its culmination in the late-medieval and early-Renaissance periods.

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