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

Publication Info. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 292 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series UCLA Clark library series
UCLA Clark Memorial Library series.
Bibliography 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.
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Subject Sextus, Empiricus.
Sextus, Empiricus.
Sextus, Empiricus.
Skepticism -- Political aspects -- History -- 18th century.
Skepticism -- Political aspects.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Skepticism.
Skeptics (Greek philosophy)
Skeptics (Greek philosophy)
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Laursen, John Christian, editor.
Paganini, Gianni, 1950- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Skepticism and political thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2015 9781442649217 (OCoLC)894141066
ISBN 9781442619722 electronic book
1442619724 electronic book
9781442649217 (bound)
1442649216 (bound)