The uses of curiosity in early modern France and Germany

The uses of curiosity in early modern France and Germany / Neil Kenny.

Between the 16th and 18th centuries, writers obsessively discussed curiosity in order to regulate knowledge or behaviour to establish who should try to know or do what. This title investigates that obsession by developing a language based approach that contributes to debates about knowledge we can h...

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Main Author: Kenny, Neil
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Curiosity > History.
Curiosity.
Curiosity in literature.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Curiosity
Curiosity in literature
Nieuwsgierigheid.
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Figures; Introduction; 1 Institutions: University; 1.1 Curiosity and Universities in Central and Northern Germany; 1.2 Defining Curiosity; 1.2.1 Passion; 1.2.2 Genus and species; 1.2.3 Subject and object; 1.3 'Adapted to the Ways of Today': Using Curiosity; 1.3.1 Legitimizing the institution; 1.3.2 Regulating medicine; 1.3.3 Confessionalism in Electoral Saxony; 1.3.4 Social discipline and confessionalization in Brandenburg-Prussia; 1.4 Conclusions; 2 Institutions: Church; 2.1 Curiosity in Church Discourses; 2.2 Avoiding Curiosity, More or Less
  • 2.2.1 A manual for the novice monk2.2.2 Pastors and politics: an oration; 2.2.3 Against libertines, scholars, clockmakers, and Rosicrucians: François Garasse, Johann Valentin Andreae, Gottlieb Spizel; 2.2.4 Pastors and flocks; 2.3 Accommodating Curiosity, More or Less; 2.3.1 A pilgrim's guide; 2.3.2 Marketing religion; 2.3.3 Questions to ask an accommodating ex-Jesuit: René de Ceriziers; 2.3.4 Secrets of mendicants, mystics, inquisitors; 2.4 Conclusions; 3 Institutions: The Culture of Curiosities Discursive Tendencies: Collecting; 3.1 The Culture of Curiosities
  • 3.2 Collecting and Narrating as Discursive Tendencies3.3 Calling Objects 'Curious'; 3.4 Discourses; 3.4.1 Academies and learned societies; 3.4.2 Nature and art: telling and selling 'the most curious things in the universe'; 3.4.3 How-to books; 3.4.4 Pedagogues; 3.4.5 Collectors of material objects; 3.4.6 Antiquarianism; 3.4.7 Travel; 3.4.8 History and news; 3.4.9 Miscellany-periodicals and miscellanies; 3.4.10 'Curious amusements' and 'curious sciences'; 3.5 Across Discourses; 3.5.1 Satire; 3.5.2 Writers, printers, publishers, booksellers; 3.6 Conclusions
  • 4 Discursive Tendencies: Narrating Sexes: Male4.1 Narrating as a Discursive Tendency; 4.2 Male and Female, Feminine and Masculine; 4.3 Non-fiction; 4.3.1 Exempla; 4.3.2 Histories of the arts and sciences; 4.4 Fiction: Exemplarity and Beyond; 4.4.1 Du Souhait, The Happiness of the Wise / The Unhappiness of the Curious; 4.4.2 A Jesuit ballet for boys; 4.4.3 Triangles of curiosity; 4.4.4 Still typecast: comic curieux on stage; 4.4.5 Morality and beyond; 4.5 Conclusions; 5 Discursive Tendencies: Narrating Sexes: Female; 5.1 Topoi; 5.2 Narratives; 5.2.1 Exempla
  • 5.2.2 The corrigible curiosity of daughters5.2.3 The 'incorrigible curiosity' of a wife: La Fontaine's Psiché; 5.2.4 Opening the box, bowl, pie, jar, or closet: Pandora, Bluebeard, and others; 5.2.5 The 'excusable curiosity' of serving-class women; 5.3 Conclusions; Conclusion; Bibliography; Primary Sources; 1. German university dissertations and orations devoted to curiositas, curiosa, polypragmosyne, periergia; 2. General; Secondary Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

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