The Emergence of Impartiality

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-26083-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 444 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 845 g

Reihe: Intersections

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murphy, Kathryn

Traninger, Anita

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations

Introduction: Instances of Impartiality
KATHRYN MURPHY AND ANITA TRANINGER

1. PREHISTORIES OF IMPARTIALITY

Taking Sides and the Prehistory of Impartiality
ANITA TRANINGER

Reasons for Holding Back in Two Essays of Montaigne
RICHARD SCHOLAR

2. NEWS AND IMPARTIALITY

Parteylichkeit and the Periodical Press
JÖRG JOCHEN BERNS

Exporting Impartiality
JOAD RAYMOND

3. LITERATURE, POLITICS, AND THE LAW

‘Partialitie in a Iudge, is a Turpitude’: Partial Judges and Impartial Revengers in Early Modern English Drama
DEREK DUNNE

‘Out of Books and Out of Themselves’: Invigorating Impartiality in Early Modern England
NATHAN STOGDILL
The Language of Impartiality and Party-Political Discourse in England, 1680–1745
CHRISTINE GERRARD

4. IMPARTIALITY IN CONTROVERSY

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

5. IMPARTIALITY AND THE HISTORY OF SCHOLARSHIP

Impartiality and the Early Modern ars critica: The Case of John Selden’s Historie of Tithes (1618)
NICK HARDY

Pierre Bayle’s Dictionaire historique et critique: Historical Criticism and Impartiality of Judgement
ANNE EUSTERSCHULTE

6. A VIEW FROM NOWHERE: IMPARTIALITY AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY

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

7. IMPARTIALITY AND THE ART OF OBSERVATION

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

Über Autor(innen)

Anita Traninger, Ph.D. (1998), is Einstein Junior Fellow at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Freie Universität Berlin. Her areas of research include the history of rhetoric and dialectics, literature and discourses of knowledge in early modern Europe, and the fact/fiction divide.

Kathryn Murphy, D.Phil. (2009), is Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oriel College, Oxford. Her research focuses on early modern English prose, discourses of knowledge, and the reception of ancient philosophy.