The Emergence of Impartialiy

CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ........................................................................................ ix
Notes on the Editors ...................................................................................... xi
Notes on the Contributors  ........................................................................... xiii
List of Illustrations .......................................................................................... xix
Introduction: Instances of Impartiality .................................................... 1
Kathryn Murphy and Anita Traninger
1. PREHISTORIES OF IMPARTIALITY
Taking Sides and the Prehistory of Impartiality  ................................... 33
Anita Traninger
Reasons for Holding Back in Two Essays of Montaigne ..................... 65
Richard Scholar
2. NEWS AND IMPARTIALITY
Parteylichkeit and the Periodical Press ..................................................... 87
Jörg Jochen Berns
Exporting Impartiality ................................................................................... 141
Joad Raymond
3. LITERATURE, POLITICS, AND THE LAW
‘Partialitie in a Iudge, is a Turpitude’: Partial Judges and Judicious
Revengers in Early Modern English Drama ....................................... 171
Derek Dunne
‘Out of Books and Out of Themselves’: Invigorating Impartiality
in Early Modern England  ........................................................................ 189
Nathaniel Stogdill
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The Language of Impartiality and Party-Political Discourse in
England, 1680–1745 .................................................................................... 211
Christine Gerrard
4. IMPARTIALITY IN CONTROVERSY
Impartiality and Disingenuousness in English Rational Religion .... 225
Rhodri Lewis
The Rise of Controversies and the Function of Impartiality in
the Early Eighteenth Century  ................................................................ 247
Rainer Godel
Objectivity, Impartiality, and Hermeneutics in the LeibnizianWolffian
Debates between 1720 and 1750 ........................................... 265
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) ............................................................ 289
N.J.S. Hardy
Pierre Bayle’s Dictionaire historique et critique: Historical
Criticism and Impartiality of Judgement  ........................................... 305
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 ............................................................ 335
Tamás Demeter
Between Impartiality and Parrhesia: Adam Smith’s Figure of the
Impartial Spectator .................................................................................... 361
Bastian Ronge
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7. IMPARTIALITY AND THE ART OF OBSERVATION
Impartiality in the Matrix of Taxonomy: Carl von Linné and
Folklore  ......................................................................................................... 379
Bernd Roling
Truth Rather Than Elegance: A Paradoxical Case of Impartiality
in Alexander Cozens’s Principles of Beauty (1778)  ........................... 409
Anja Zimmermann
Index ................................................................................................................... 439