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The luxury of skepticism : politics, philosophy, and dialogue in the English public sphere, 1660-1740

Title: The luxury of skepticism : politics, philosophy, and dialogue in the English public sphere, 1660-1740 / Timothy Dykstal.
Author: Dykstal, Timothy.
Publication: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2001.

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Description

x, 222 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"How is it that a controversy about politics becomes a conversation about philosophy? From Hobbes to Harrington to Shafesbury to Berkeley, Timothy Dykstal explores the public function of the philosophical dialogue at the beginning of England's long eighteenth century. From his close analysis of the works of the era's great philosophers, Dykstal argues that the dialogue as a literary form helped to develop, and subsequently transform, the public sphere in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Note

Based on the author's doctoral dissertation (University of Chicago).

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-214) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Conversation and Political Controversy -- 1. Hobbes: Dialogue as Counsel -- 2. Harrington and Neville: Dialogue and Disinterestedness -- 3. Shaftesbury: Dialogue and Distinction -- 4. Mandeville: Dialogue as Commerce -- 5. Berkeley: Dialogue as Catechism -- Conclusion: The Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth.

ISBN

0813920035
9780813920030

LCCN

00060021

OCLC

ocm44750675
44750675
SCSB-1209264

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library