What do scholars do when they talk about virtues (impartiality, accuracy) or vices (dogmatism, prejudice)? Against the common view that such high-minded talk is largely irrelevant to actual scholarly practice, this volume proposes to treat it as a practice in its own right.
What do scholars do when they talk about virtues (impartiality, accuracy) or vices (dogmatism, prejudice)? Against the common view that such high-minded talk is largely irrelevant to actual scholarly practice, this volume proposes to treat it as a practice in its own right.
Herman Paul is Professor of the History of the Humanities at Leiden University. He is the author, most recently, of Historians' Virtues: From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century (2022) and Dogmatism: On the History of a Scholarly Vice (with Alexander Stoeger, 2024). In 2024, he was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: A Rhetorical Approach to Scholarly Virtues and Vices Part I: Across Disciplines 1. The Scholarly Self: Ideals of Intellectual Virtue in Nineteenth-Century Leiden 2. Weber Wöhler and Waitz: Virtue Language in Late Nineteenth-Century Physics Chemistry and History 3. An Ethos of Criticism: Virtues and Vices in Nineteenth-Century Strasbourg Part II: Rhetorical Uses 4. Hypercriticism: A Case Study in the Rhetoric of Vice 5. Denial of Coevalness: Charges of Dogmatism in the Nineteenth-Century Humanities (with Caroline Schep) 6. Virtue Language in Nineteenth-Century Orientalism: A Case Study in Historical Epistemology Part III: Cultural Repertoires 7. German Thoroughness in Baltimore: Epistemic Virtues and National Stereotypes 8. The Icarus Flight of Speculation: Philosophers' Vices as Perceived by Nineteenth-Century Historians and Physicists (with Sjang ten Hagen) 9. Labor ipse voluptas: Virtues of Work in Nineteenth-Century Germany Acknowledgments Index
Introduction: A Rhetorical Approach to Scholarly Virtues and Vices Part I: Across Disciplines 1. The Scholarly Self: Ideals of Intellectual Virtue in Nineteenth-Century Leiden 2. Weber Wöhler and Waitz: Virtue Language in Late Nineteenth-Century Physics Chemistry and History 3. An Ethos of Criticism: Virtues and Vices in Nineteenth-Century Strasbourg Part II: Rhetorical Uses 4. Hypercriticism: A Case Study in the Rhetoric of Vice 5. Denial of Coevalness: Charges of Dogmatism in the Nineteenth-Century Humanities (with Caroline Schep) 6. Virtue Language in Nineteenth-Century Orientalism: A Case Study in Historical Epistemology Part III: Cultural Repertoires 7. German Thoroughness in Baltimore: Epistemic Virtues and National Stereotypes 8. The Icarus Flight of Speculation: Philosophers' Vices as Perceived by Nineteenth-Century Historians and Physicists (with Sjang ten Hagen) 9. Labor ipse voluptas: Virtues of Work in Nineteenth-Century Germany Acknowledgments Index
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