This introduction argues for the value of projecting as a category of analysis, while exploring the contexts for its emergence and spread as a genre of intellectual and practical activity in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. The emergence of the morally ambivalent figure of the “projector” in Elizabethan and Stuart England – initially in connection with confessional strife and attacks on corruption, and subsequently in relation to colonial expansion, experimental philosophy, and commercial and fiscal innovation – provoked defences of projecting that articulated the relationship between private interest, individual effort, the public good, and collaborative ­scientific practice in new ways. German cameralists and French philosophes extended these arguments, while recuperating the figure of the projector, in the eighteenth century.

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本导论论证了投射作为一种分析类别的价值，同时探索了投射作为一种智力和实践活动在 16、17 和 18 世纪出现和传播的背景。在伊丽莎白时代和斯图亚特英格兰，道德上矛盾的“投射者”形象的出现——最初与忏悔冲突和对腐败的攻击有关，随后与殖民扩张、实验哲学以及商业和财政创新有关——引发了对投射的辩护它以新的方式阐明了私人利益、个人努力、公共利益和协作科学实践之间的关系。德国摄影师和法国哲学家扩展了这些论点，同时恢复了投影仪的形象，