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Neutrality and Its Discontents: An Essay on the Ethics of Librarianship
Abstract
This essay analyzes the debate about neutrality in the library literature and identifies a fundamental moral dilemma that generates debate. It then advances an argument in favor of library neutrality based on Wayne Bivens-Tatum's intellectual history of library values in Libraries and the Enlightenment and the ideal of liberal neutrality developed by such political philosophers as Ronald Dworkin, John Rawls, and Martha Nussbaum. In conclusion, the essay responds to potential objections to its pro-neutrality thesis by liberal and radical authors.
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- Authors
- Wenzler, J.
- Corresponding author
- Wenzler, John
- ORCID
- Wenzler, John
- Venue
- portal: Libraries and the Academy
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2019
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 55-78
- ISSN
- 1530-7131 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2912255213
- Cited by
- 29
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 22.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- portal Libraries and the Academy (publishedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Library Science and Administration
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Philosophy and Ethics
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Library Science and Information
- Keywords
- neutrality, library neutrality, ethical dilemmas, Enlightenment, liberal neutrality, Ronald Dworkin, John Rawls, Martha Nussbaum
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