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edocfu_9958352893202883
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1 online resource :
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ISBN:
9781442619722
Content:
Surveying the use of skepticism in works by Hobbes, Descartes, Hume, Smith, and Kant, among others, these essays demonstrate the pervasive impact of skepticism on the intellectual landscape of early modern Europe.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction --
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1. Neither Philosophy nor Politics? The Ancient Pyrrhonian Approach to Everday Life --
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2. La Mothe Le Vayer and Political Skepticism --
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3. Hobbes and the French Skeptics --
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4. Questionnnements sceptiques et politiques de la fable: les « autres mondes » du libertinage érudit --
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5. Obeying the Laws and Customs of the Country: Living in Disorder and Barbarity. The Powerlessness of Political Skepticism According to the Discours sceptiques (1657) of Samuel Sorbière --
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6. Bernard Mandeville’s Skeptical Political Philosophy --
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7. David Hume: Skepticism in Politics? --
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8. Denis Diderot and the Politics of Materialist Skepticism --
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9. Rousseau: Philosophical and Religious Skepticism and Political Dogmatism --
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10. Skepticism and Political Economy: Smith, Hume, and Rousseau --
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11. Can a Skeptic Be a Reformer? Skepticism in Morals and Politics during the Enlightenment: The Case of Voltaire --
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12. From General Skepticism to Complete Dogmatism: Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville --
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13. Carl Friedrich Stäudlin’s Diagnosis of the Political Effects of Skepticism in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany --
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Contributors --
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Index
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442619722
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442619722
