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

What do scholars do when they talk about virtues (impartiality, accuracy) or vices (dogmatism, prejudice)? Against the common view that such high-minded talk is largely irrelevant to actual scholarly practice, this volume proposes to treat it as a practice in its own right. Drawing on case studies f...

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Autor principal: Herman Paul
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Publicado: Routledge 2025
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