A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Chain of Being
Addison, Joseph. Spectator 519 (25 Oct. 1712) [On the Scale of Being]. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt, et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 1.2502-5.*
Bueno, Gustavo. "Los límites de la evolución en el ámbito de la scala naturae." In Evolucionismo y racionalismo. Ed. Eustoquio Molina, Alberto Carreras and Jesús Puertas. Zaragoza: Institución "Fernando el Católico" / Universidad de Zaragoza, 1998. 49-87.*
Bynum, William F. "The Great Chain of Being after Forty Years: An Appraisal." History of Science 13 (1975): 1-28.
2008
de Waal, Frans. "What I Learned from Tickling Apes." New York Times 4 April 2016.*
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/opinion/sunday/what-i-learned-from-tickling-apes.html
2016
Garcés García, Pilar. "The Place of Man in the Chain of Beings According to Sidney's Defense of Poesie." SEDERI 4 (1993): 63-68.
García Landa, José Ángel. "El orden natural y la complejidad: Paley, Lamarck, Vico y el Génesis." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 30 March 2009.
2009
_____. "El orden natural y la complejidad: Paley, Lamarck, Vico, y el Génesis." Social Science Research Network 25 May 2015.*
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2609894
2015
_____. "El orden natural y la complejidad: Paley, Lamarck, Vico, y el Génesis." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 2 June 2015.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2015/06/el-orden-natural-y-la-complejidad-paley.html
2015
_____. "El orden natural y la complejidad: Paley, Lamarck, Vico y el Génesis." Academia 28 Dec. 2016.
https://www.academia.edu/30644890/
2016
_____. "El ¿pernicioso? legado de la Gran Cadena del Ser." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 9 August 2011.* (Dawkins, evolution, complexity).
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2011/08/el-pernicioso-legado-de-la-gran-cadena.html
2011
_____. "Muqaddimah." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 5 June 2013.* (Ibn Khaldun).
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2013/06/muqaddimah.html
2013
_____. "Addison on Aliens." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 13 Dec. 2014.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2014/12/addison-on-aliens.html
2014
_____. "Addison on Aliens." Ibercampus (Vanity Fea) 15 Dec. 2014.*
http://www.ibercampus.eu/addison-on-aliens-2605.htm
2015
_____. "Addison on Aliens." Social Science Research Network 8 Jan. 2015.*
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2543435
2015
_____. "Addison on Aliens." Academia 30 May 2015.*
https://www.academia.edu/12682907
2015
_____. "Addison on Aliens: On the Origins of the Evolutionary Epic." ResearchGate 23 March 2016.*
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299385986
2016
_____. "Addison y los extraterrestres." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 30 May 2015.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2015/05/addison-y-los-extraterrestres.html
2015
_____. "Addison on Aliens: On the Origins of the Evolutionary Epic." Net Sight de José Angel García Landa 4 Jan. 2023.*
https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/AddisonAliens.pdf
2023
_____. "Un orden ineluctable: Teilhard de Chardin y el despliegue de la complejidad." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 3 Nov. 2021.* (Chain of Being).
https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2021/11/un-orden-ineluctable.html
2021
Gould, Stephen Jay. "Bound by the Great Chain." In Gould, The Flamingo's smile. 1985. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991. 281-90.* (Charles White).
_____. "Atados por la gran cadena del ser." In Gould, La sonrisa del flamenco. Barcelona: RBA, 1995. 241-49.*
_____. "To Show an Ape." In Gould, The Flamingo's smile. 1985. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991. 263-80.* (Edward Tyson, chimpanzees, Great Chain of Being).
_____. "Exhibir a un mono."In Gould, La sonrisa del flamenco. Barcelona: RBA, 1995. 225-40.*
Grassie, William. "The Great Matrix of Being." Huffington Post 26 Feb. 2013.*
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-grassie/the-great-matrix-of-being_b_2766181.html
2013
Levêque, P. Aurea catena Homeri: Une étude sur l'allégorie grecque. Paris, 1959.
Lovejoy, Arthur O. "The Genesis of the Idea in Greek Philosophy: The Three Principles." In Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1936. 1957. 24-66.*
_____. "The Chain of Being and Some Internal Conflicts in Medieval Thought." In Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1936. 1957. 67-98.*
_____. "The Principle of Plenitude and the New Cosmography." In Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1936. 1957. 99-143.*
_____. "Plenitude and Sufficient Reason in Leibniz and Spinoza." In Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1936. 1957. 144-82.*
_____. "The Chain of Being in Eighteenth-Century Thought, and Man's Place and Rôle in Nature." In Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1936. 1957. 183-207.*
_____. "The Principle of Plenitude and Eighteenth-Century Optimism." In Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1936. 1957. 208-26.*
_____. "The Chain of Being and Some Aspects of Eighteenth-Century Biology." In Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1936. 1957. 227-41.*
_____. "The Temporalizing of the Chain of Being." In Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1936. 1957. 242-87.*
_____. "Romanticism and the Principle of Plenitude." In Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1936. 1957.*
_____. "The Outcome of the History and Its Moral." In Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1936. 1957. 315-34.*
_____. The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea. (William James Lectures delivered at Harvard University, 1933). Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1936. 1957.*
_____. The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 1936. 1964. 2001. Online at Dspace.*
http://libarch.nmu.org.ua/bitstream/handle/GenofondUA/24685/da21a657702b32cb3b956423de30e0ad.pdf
2020
_____. The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea. 1936. New York: Harper, 1960.
_____. La Gran Cadena del Ser: Historia de una idea. Barcelona: Icaria, 1983.
Mazzeo, Joseph Anthony. "Metaphysical Poetry and the Poetic of Correspondance." Journal of the History of Ideas 2 (1933): 221-46.
Priestley, F. E. L. "Pope and the Great Chain of Being." In Essays in English Literature from the Renaissance to the Victorian Age: Presented to A. S. P. Woodhouse. Ed. M. MacLure and F. W. Watt. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1964. 213-28.*
Robinet. Gradation naturelle des formes de l'être. Vol. 5 of De la nature. 1768.
Shaftesbury (3rd Earl of). Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. 3 vols. 1711.
_____. Characteristicks. 2nd rev. ed. 1715.
_____. Characteristicks. 1727.
_____. Characteristicks. Ed. John M. Robertson. 2 vols. London Grant Richards, 1900.
Sibiuda, Ramón. Liber creaturarum.
_____. Teologia Naturalis. 1484. 11 eds. to 1646 (plus 6 in Montaigne's translation).
_____. Théologie naturelle. Trans. Michel de Montaigne. (Trans. of Liber creaturarum).
_____. Natural Theology. (Great Chain of Being).
Tillyard, E. M W. The Elizabethan World Picture. London: Chatto and Windus, 1943.*
_____. The Elizabethan World Picture. Toronto: Macmillan Canada, 1943.
_____. The Elizabethan World Picture. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960. 1963. 1970.* 1990.
_____. The Elizabethan World Picture. New York: Vintage, n. d.
Voltaire. "Cadena de los seres creados." From Diccionario Filosófico. In Voltaire, Cartas filosóficas. Diccionario filosófico. Memorias para servir a la vida de Voltaire escritas por él mismo. Prologue by Fernando Savater. Introd. Martí Domínguez. (Grandes Pensadores Gredos; Voltaire, I). Madrid: Gredos, 2010. Rpt. Barcelona: RBA, 2014. 207-9.*
Wilson, E. O. "No somos un superorganismo." Interview. In Eduardo Punset, Cara a cara con la vida, la mente y el Universo: Conversaciones con los grandes científicos de nuestro tiempo. Prologue by Lynn Margulis. 2004. Barcelona: Destino, 2006. 124-40.*
Wilson, Eric. "Melville, Darwin, and the Great Chain of Being." Studies in American Fiction 28.2 (Autumn 2000).
Literature
Pope, Alexander. Essay on Man. Philosophical poem. 1733-1734.
_____. An Essay on Man. In The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Ed. Adolphus William Ward. London: Macmillan, 1879. 191-226.*
_____. Essay on Man. Ed. Maynard Mack. London: Methuen, 1950.
_____. Essay on Man. In Pope, Poems. New Haven: Yale UP, 1963.
_____. Essay on Man. In Alexander Pope's Collected Poems. Ed. Bonamy Dobrée. London: Dent, 1975.
_____. From An Essay on Man. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt, et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 1.2554-62.* (Selections from ms. transcription in 2893-94).
_____. Essay on Man. French trans. Abbé Reynel. 18th cent.
_____. Essay on Man. French prose trans. Silhouet. 1737.
Sebond, Raymond. Teologia Naturalis. 1484. 11 eds. to 1646 (plus 6 in Montaigne's translation).
_____. Natural Theology. (Great Chain of Being).
White, Charles. An Account of the Regular Gradation in Man, and in Different Animals and Vegetables. London: C. Dilly, 1799.
Video
Bueno, Gustavo. "El 'Reino del Hombre' (III) – El Reino del Hombre y la Antropología como disfraz gnoseológico de un embrollo ontológico o mejor paleontológico." Fundación Gustavo Bueno, 4 Nov. 2013. Video lecture. YouTube (fgbuenotv) 4 Nov. 2013.* (Linnaeus, anthropology).
2014
