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The Vices of Learning: Morality and Knowledge at Early Modern Universities

By Sari Kivistö

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2014
ISBN
9004264124, 9789004264120, 9789004276451
ISSN
0926-6070
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1077797 bytes)
Series
Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 48
Edition
1st
Pages
312\313
Time added
2014-07-16 05:58:42

Description

In The Vices of Learning: Morality and Knowledge at Early Modern Universities, Sari Kivistö examines scholarly vices in the late Baroque and early Enlightenment periods. Moral criticism of the learned was a favourite theme of Latin dissertations, treatises and satires written in Germany ca. 1670–1730. Works on scholarly pride, logomachy, curiosity and other vices kept the presses running at German Protestant universities as well as farther north. Kivistö shows how scholars constructed fame and how the process involved various means of producing celebrity. The book industry, plagiarism and impressive titles were all labelled dishonest means of advancing a career. In The Vices of Learning Kivistö argues that scholarly ethics was an essential part of the early modern intellectual framework.

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