Virtues and Vices in the Nineteenth-Century Humanities Explorations of a Discourse

Paul, Herman

Virtues and Vices in the Nineteenth-Century Humanities Explorations of a Discourse - Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2025 - 298 Seiten - Studies in the History of Knowledge .

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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, Wèohler, 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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