UID:
edocfu_9959244447302883
Format:
1 online resource (299 p.)
ISBN:
1-4426-1973-2
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1-4426-1972-4
Series Statement:
UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
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.
Note:
Includes index.
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Introduction / John Christian Laursen and Gianni Paganini -- Neither Philosophy nor Politics? The Ancient Pyrrhonian Approach to Everyday Life / Emidio Spinelli -- La Mothe Le Vayer and Political Skepticism / Daniel R. Brunstetter -- Hobbes and the French Skeptics / Gianni Paganini -- Questionnnements sceptiques et politiques de la fable: les "autres mondes" du libertinage erudit / Jean-Charles Darmon -- 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 Sorbiere / Sylvia Giocanti -- Bernard Mandeville's Skeptical Political Philosophy / Rui Bertrand Romão -- David Hume: Skepticism in Politics? / Andrew Sabl -- Denis Diderot and the Politics of Materialist Skepticism / Whitney Mannies -- Rousseau: Philosophical and Religious Skepticism and Political Dogmatism / María Jose Villaverde -- Skepticism and Political Economy: Smith, Hume, and Rousseau / Pierre Force -- Can a Skeptic Be a Reformer? Skepticism in Morals and Politics during the Enlightenment: The Case of Voltaire / Rodrigo Brandão -- From General Skepticism to Complete Dogmatism: Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville / Sebastien Charles -- Carl Friedrich Stäudlin's Diagnosis of the Political Effects of Skepticism in Late Eighteetn-Century Germany / John Christian Laursen.
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4426-4921-6
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.3138/9781442619722