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Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: UCLA Clark Memorial Library SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (299 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442619722
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesDDC classification:
  • 149/.73
LOC classification:
  • B837.S567 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Neither Philosophy nor Politics? The Ancient Pyrrhonian Approach to Everday Life -- 2 La Mothe Le Vayer and Political Skepticism -- 3 Hobbes and the French Skeptics -- 4 Questionnnements sceptiques et politiques de la fable: les « autres mondes » du libertinage érudit -- 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 -- 6 Bernard Mandeville's Skeptical Political Philosophy -- 7 David Hume: Skepticism in Politics? -- 8 Denis Diderot and the Politics of Materialist Skepticism -- 9 Rousseau: Philosophical and Religious Skepticism and Political Dogmatism -- 10 Skepticism and Political Economy: Smith, Hume, and Rousseau -- 11 Can a Skeptic Be a Reformer? Skepticism in Morals and Politics during the Enlightenment: The Case of Voltaire -- 12 From General Skepticism to Complete Dogmatism: Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville -- 13 Carl Friedrich Stäudlin's Diagnosis of the Political Effects of Skepticism in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: 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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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Neither Philosophy nor Politics? The Ancient Pyrrhonian Approach to Everday Life -- 2 La Mothe Le Vayer and Political Skepticism -- 3 Hobbes and the French Skeptics -- 4 Questionnnements sceptiques et politiques de la fable: les « autres mondes » du libertinage érudit -- 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 -- 6 Bernard Mandeville's Skeptical Political Philosophy -- 7 David Hume: Skepticism in Politics? -- 8 Denis Diderot and the Politics of Materialist Skepticism -- 9 Rousseau: Philosophical and Religious Skepticism and Political Dogmatism -- 10 Skepticism and Political Economy: Smith, Hume, and Rousseau -- 11 Can a Skeptic Be a Reformer? Skepticism in Morals and Politics during the Enlightenment: The Case of Voltaire -- 12 From General Skepticism to Complete Dogmatism: Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville -- 13 Carl Friedrich Stäudlin's Diagnosis of the Political Effects of Skepticism in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany -- Contributors -- Index.

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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