Skepticism and political thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / edited by John Christian Laursen and Gianni Paganini.
| Other author | Laursen, John Christian. |
| Other author | Paganini, Gianni, 1950- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015] |
| Description | vi, 292 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | UCLA Clark library series UCLA Clark Memorial Library series. ^A610150 |
| 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. |
| General 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. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015302905 |
| ISBN | 9781442649217 (bound) |
| ISBN | 1442649216 (bound) |
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