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1 online resource (xx, 443 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Intersections: interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture ; volume 31-2014
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Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 31.
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| Summary |
Tracing its emergence in various fields, the contributions in this volume demonstrate how the notion of impartiality is intimately implicated in epochal early modern shifts in epistemology and science, religious and political discourse, print culture, and scholarship. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Acknowledgements; Notes on the Editors; Notes on the Contributors; List of Illustrations; Introduction: Instances of Impartiality; 1. Prehistories of Impartiality; Taking Sides and the Prehistory of Impartiality; Reasons for Holding Back in Two Essays of Montaigne; 2. News and Impartiality; Parteylichkeit and the Periodical Press; Exporting Impartiality; 3. Literature, Politics, and the Law; 'Partialitie in a Iudge, is a Turpitude': Partial Judges and Judicious Revengers in Early Modern English Drama. |
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'Out of Books and Out of Themselves': Invigorating Impartiality in Early Modern EnglandThe Language of Impartiality and Party-Political Discourse in England, 1680-1745; 4. Impartiality in Controversy; Impartiality and Disingenuousness in English Rational Religion; The Rise of Controversies and the Function of Impartiality in the Early Eighteenth Century; Objectivity, Impartiality, and Hermeneutics in the Leibnizian-Wolffian Debates between 1720 and 1750; 5. Impartiality and the History of Scholarship. |
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Impartiality and the Early Modern ars critica: The Case of John Selden's Historie of Tithes (1618)Pierre Bayle's Dictionaire historique et critique: Historical Criticism and Impartiality of Judgement; 6. A View from Nowhere: Impartiality and Moral Philosophy; Morals Before Objectivity: On the Relation of Moral Cognition and Moral Philosophy in Hume; Between Impartiality and Parrhesia: Adam Smith's Figure of the Impartial Spectator; 7. Impartiality and the Art of Observation; Impartiality in the Matrix of Taxonomy: Carl von Linné and Folklore. |
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Truth Rather Than Elegance: A Paradoxical Case of Impartiality in Alexander Cozens's Principles of Beauty (1778); Index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Fairness.
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Fairness. |
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Electronic books.
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Murphy, Kathryn, editor.
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Traninger, Anita, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Emergence of impartiality. Boston : Brill, 2014 9789004260832 (DLC) 2013031841 (OCoLC)858914286 |
| ISBN |
9789004260849 (electronic book) |
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9004260846 (electronic book) |
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