Research Catalog

Title

Skepticism and political thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / edited by John Christian Laursen and Gianni Paganini.

Publication

• Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Laursen, John Christian
• Paganini, Gianni, 1950-
• University of Toronto. Press, publisher.
• University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies, publisher.
• William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, publisher.

Description

vi, 292 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

UCLA Clark library series

Uniform Title

UCLA Clark Memorial Library series.

Subject

• Sextus, Empiricus
• Skepticism > Political aspects > History > 17th century
• Skepticism > Political aspects > History > 18th century
• Skeptics (Greek philosophy)

Note

• Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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 érudit / 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 Sorbière / 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 José 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 / Sébastien Charles -- Carl Friedrich Stäudlin's Diagnosis of the Political Effects of Skepticism in Late Eighteetn-Century Germany / John Christian Laursen.

Call Number

JFE 16-4929

ISBN

• 9781442649217
• 1442649216

LCCN

2015302905

OCLC

894141066

Title

Skepticism and political thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / edited by John Christian Laursen and Gianni Paganini.

Publisher

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

UCLA Clark library series

UCLA Clark Memorial Library series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Laursen, John Christian, editor.

Paganini, Gianni, 1950- editor.

University of Toronto. Press, publisher.

University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies, publisher.

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, publisher.

Other Form:

Also available online: Skepticism and political thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015] 9781442619722 (OCoLC)904548214

Research Call Number

JFE 16-4929