Download or read book The Vices of Learning written by Sari Kivistö and published by Education and Society in the M. This book was released on 2014 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book sets out to answer a seemingly simple question: What constituted scholarly vices in the late Baroque and early Enlightenment periods? The question arises from the curious fact that moral criticism of the learned was a favourite theme of academic dissertations, polemical tracts and satires written in Germany ca. 1670-1730"--Page [1].