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Book SynopsisHerman Paul is Professor of the History of the Humanities at Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Alexander Stoeger is a Postdoctoral Researcher in History of Science at Leiden University, the Netherlands
Trade ReviewThis original book builds a fascinating story about dogmatism identifying its transformations from an individual vice to a polemical device in various academic, political, and religious debates. Drawing on rich primary sources, Paul and Stoeger convincingly demonstrate the meanings that scholars have given to dogmatism in the history of knowledge over time. * Sari Kivistö, Professor of Comparative Literature, Tampere University, Finland *
Paul and Stoeger’s
Dogmatism offers a lucid and gripping presentation of an impressively rich material, combined with stimulating reflections on the ways in which intellectual history can return to questions of longue-durée continuity, as well as fertilize current interrogations in virtue and vice epistemology or the studies of cultural discourse. * Sorana Corneanu, Professor of English, University of Bucharest, Romania *
Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Origins of the Term: Ancient Layers of Meaning Chapter 2: A Relic from the Past: Dogmatism in an Age of Progress Chapter 3: As Infallible as the Pope: Demarcating Science and Religion Chapter 4: The Prince of Dogmatists: Stereotypical Attributions Chapter 5: Dogmatic Elements of Science: Non-Pejorative Meanings Chapter 6: The Dogmatic Personality: Psychological Research in Cold War America Chapter 7: Challenging Dogma With Data: New Twists to Old Storylines Conclusion
