The Vices of Learning: Morality and Knowledge at Early Modern Universities: 48 (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 48) - Hardcover

Kivisto, Sari

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004264124 ISBN 13: 9789004264120

Publisher: Brill, 2014

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Sari Kivistö, Ph.D. (2002, Helsinki), Docent of Comparative Literature, works as an Academy of Finland Research Fellow and Deputy Director at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. Kivistö has published widely on satire and Neo-Latin literature (e.g., Medical Analogy in Latin Satire, 2009).

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004264124
• ISBN 13: 9789004264120
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312