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The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany (Hardcover)
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The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany (Hardcover)
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Why did people argue about curiosity in France, Germany, and
elsewhere in Europe between the sixteenth and the eighteenth
centuries, so much more than today? Why was curiosity a fashionable
topic in early modern conduct manuals, university dissertations,
scientific treatises, sermons, newspapers, novellas, plays, operas,
ballets, poems, from Corneille to Diderot, from Johann Valentin
Andreae to Gottlieb Spizel?
Universities, churches, and other institutions invoked curiosity in
order to regulate knowledge or behavior, to establish who should
try to know or do what, and under what circumstances. As well as
investigating a crucial episode in the history of knowledge, this
study makes a distinctive contribution to historiographical debates
about the nature of "concepts." Curiosity was constantly reshaped
by the uses of it. And yet, strangely, however much people
contested what curiosity was, they often agreed that what they were
disagreeing about was one and the same thing.
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