Despite the review ethos introduced by the physician Albrecht von Haller when he took over the Göttingische gelehrte Nachrichten as chief editor in 1747, he wrote many self-reviews. This article examines von Haller’s numerous self-reviews in order to explore the aims of reviewing, the openness of scholarship, the relationship between reviewing and truth, and the scientific language used, which can be summarised as what Marco Sgarbi, in a stimulating article, has called a “style of reasoning.” Reviews and self-reviews did not develop as an autonomous genre, but were integrated into a system of intermediality in which publications, reviews, (semi-)private letters and images responded to one another. They were primarily aimed at correcting and advancing science in the complexity of his intellectual, personal and cultural options.
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Chapter Title
Albrecht von Haller’s Self-Reviews and Style of Reasoning
Authors
Claire Gantet
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0573-3.03
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2025
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Book Title
Philosophical Reviews in German Territories (1668-1799)
Book Subtitle
Volume 1
Editors
Marco Sgarbi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
162
Publication Year
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0573-3
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0572-6
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0573-3
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0574-0
Series Title
Knowledge and its Histories