The skeptical Enlightenment : doubt and certainty in the age of reason / edited by Jeffrey D. Burson and Anton M. Matytsin.
"Although many historical narratives often describe the eighteenth century as an unalloyed 'Age of Reason,' Enlightenment thinkers continued to grapple with the challenges posed by the revival and spread of philosophical skepticism. The imperative to overcome doubt and uncertainty inf...
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| Other title: | Doubt and certainty in the age of reason. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Liverpool, England] :
Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford,
[2019]
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| Series: | Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ;
2019:03. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: from an "age of skepticism" to an "age of reason" / Anton M. Matytsin and Jeffrey D. Burson
- Healing the skeptical crisis and rectifying Cartesianisms: the notion of the Jesuit synthesis revisited / Jeffrey D. Burson
- "A man who sticks only to his own sentiments": Pierre-Daniel Huet's Traité philosophique de la foiblesse de l'esprit humain / Elena Rapetti
- Georg Michael Heber on legal and (possibly) religious skepticism in early Enlightenment Germany / Martin Mulsow and John Christian Laursen
- George Berkeley, or the skeptic in spite of himself / Sébastien Charles
- Voltaire and modern skeptical doubt / Rodrigo Brandão
- Skepticism and incomprehensibility in Bayle and Hume / John P. Wright
- Taming thought with practice: philosophical skepticism in the Encyclopédie / Anton M. Matytsin
- Political skepticism in Holbach's circle / Alan Charles Kors
- Summaries
- Biographies of contributors
- Bibliography
- Index.