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Vices of the Learned: Towards a Long-Term History of Scholarly Vices

Vices of the Learned: Towards a Long-Term History of Scholarly Vices

Ten Hagen, Sjang
Paul, Herman

Hardcover

PhilosophySports GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9004725040
ISBN13: 9789004725041
Publisher: Brill
Published: Oct 16 2025
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.48
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
Why are professors still warning their students against dogmatism, prejudice, pedantry, and other centuries-old vices? What explains the persistence of these scholarly vices across the ages?

With case studies from medieval Europe to twenty-first century America, Vices of the Learned offers a panoramic overview of qualities, habits, and inclinations that scholars at various times and places saw as detrimental to their work.

Innovative is the volume's longue durée approach. The volume breaks new ground in highlighting the importance of low genres (aphorisms, proverbs, anecdotes) and stereotypical figures (the pedant, the charlatan, the mammon) in transmitting vices over time.

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