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The Uses of curiosity in early modern France and Germany
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ISBN: 0199271364 9780199271368 0191709530 142376790X 0191556580 1280757752 9786610757756 Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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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 behaviour, 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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ISBN: 0313315019 9780313315015 0313006938 9780313006937 1280868929 9786610868926 Year: 2002 Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press,

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