The Emergence of impartiality / edited by Kathrun Murphy and Anita Traninger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphy, Kathryn.

Contributor:

Traninger, Anita.

Series:

Intersections 31.

Intersections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fairness.

Europe--History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (463 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : BRILL, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume exposes the contested history of a virtue so central to modern disciplines and public discourse that it can seem universal. The essays gathered here, however, demonstrate the emergence of impartiality. From the early seventeenth century, the new epithet ‘impartial’ appears prominently in a wide range of publications. Contributors trace impartiality in various fields: from news publications and polemical pamphlets to moral philosophy and historical dictionaries, from poetry and drama to natural history, in a broad European context and against the backdrop of religious and civil conflicts. Cumulatively, the volume suggests that the emergence of impartiality is implicated in the period’s epochal shifts in epistemology and science, religious and political discourse, print culture, and scholarship. Contributors include: Jörg Jochen Berns, Tamás Demeter, Derek Dunne, Anne Eusterschulte, Christine Gerrard, Rainer Godel, N.J.S. Hardy, Rhodri Lewis, Hanns-Peter Neumann, Joad Raymond, Bernd Roling, Bastian Ronge, Richard Scholar, Nathaniel Stogdill, Anita Traninger, and Anja Zimmermann.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction: Instances of Impartiality / Kathryn Murphy and Anita Traninger

Taking Sides and the Prehistory of Impartiality / Anita Traninger

Reasons for Holding Back in Two Essays of Montaigne / Richard Scholar

Parteylichkeit and the Periodical Press / Jörg Jochen Berns

Exporting Impartiality / Joad Raymond

‘Partialitie in a Iudge, is a Turpitude’: Partial Judges and Judicious Revengers in Early Modern English Drama / Derek Dunne

‘Out of Books and Out of Themselves’: Invigorating Impartiality in Early Modern England / Nathaniel Stogdill

The Language of Impartiality and Party-Political Discourse in England, 1680–1745 / Christine Gerrard

Impartiality and Disingenuousness in English Rational Religion / Rhodri Lewis

The Rise of Controversies and the Function of Impartiality in the Early Eighteenth Century / Rainer Godel

Objectivity, Impartiality, and Hermeneutics in the Leibnizian-Wolffian Debates between 1720 and 1750 / Hanns-Peter Neumann

Impartiality and the Early Modern ars critica: The Case of John Selden’s Historie of Tithes (1618) / N.J.S. Hardy

Pierre Bayle’s Dictionaire historique et critique: Historical Criticism and Impartiality of Judgement / Anne Eusterschulte

Morals Before Objectivity: On the Relation of Moral Cognition and Moral Philosophy in Hume / Tamás Demeter

Between Impartiality and Parrhesia: Adam Smith’s Figure of the Impartial Spectator / Bastian Ronge

Impartiality in the Matrix of Taxonomy: Carl von Linné and Folklore / Bernd Roling

Truth Rather Than Elegance: A Paradoxical Case of Impartiality in Alexander Cozens’s Principles of Beauty (1778) / Anja Zimmermann

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 6, 2013).

ISBN:

90-04-26084-6

OCLC:

862610227

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004260849 DOI