{"product_id":"skepticism-and-political-thought-in-the-seventeenth-and-eighteenth-centuries-hardback-9781442649217","title":"Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Hardback) 9781442649217","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSkepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJ.C. Laursen (Edited by), Gianni Paganini (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781442649217\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 20 February 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 1 figure\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16.1 x 2.6 cm, 0.6 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;#x2018;The volume features thorough, well documented, and wide-ranging scholarship on both primary and secondary texts, drawing from literature, political treatises, moral theory and of course philosophy.\u0026amp;#x2019;\u003c\/p\u003e - Kristen Irwin (International Journal for the Study of Skepticism vol 7:2017)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection, thirteen distinguished contributors examine the influence of the ancient skeptical philosophy of Pyrrho of Elis and Sextus Empiricus on early modern political thought. Classical skepticism argues that in the absence of certainty one must either suspend judgment and live by habit or act on the basis of probability rather than certainty. In either case, one must reject dogmatic confidence in politics and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSurveying the use of skepticism in works by Hobbes, Descartes, Hume, Smith, and Kant, among others, the essays in \u003cem\u003eSkepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrate the pervasive impact of skepticism on the intellectual landscape of early modern Europe. This volume is not just an authoritative account of skepticism’s importance from the Enlightenment to the French Revolution, it is also the basis for understanding skepticism’s continuing political implications.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction (John Christian Laursen and Gianni Paganini)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Neither Philosophy Nor Politics? The Ancient Pyrrhonian Approach to Everday Life (Emidio Spinelli)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. La Mothe Le Vayer and Political Skepticism (Daniel Brunstetter)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Hobbes and the French Skeptics (Gianni Paganini)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Questionnnements sceptiques et politiques de la fable: les “autres mondes” du libertinage erudite (Jean-Charles Darmon)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Obeying the Laws and Customs of the Country: Living in Disorder and Barbarity. The Powerlessness of Political Skepticism According to the \u003cem\u003eDiscours sceptiques\u003c\/em\u003e of Samuel SorbiÈre (Sylvia Giocanti)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Bernard Mandeville’s Skeptical Political Philosophy (Rui RomÃo)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. David Hume: Skepticism in Politics? (Andrew Sabl)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Denis Diderot and the Politics of Materialist Skepticism (Whitney Mannies)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Rousseau: Philosophical and Religious Skepticism and Political Dogmatism (MarÍa JosÉ Villaverde)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Skepticism and Political Economy (Pierre Force)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Can a Skeptic be a Reformer? Skepticism in Morals and Politics during the Enlightenment: the Case of Voltaire (Rodrigo BrandÃo)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. From General Skepticism to Complete Dogmatism: Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville (SÉbastien Charles)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Karl Friedrich StÄudlin’s Diagnosis of the Political Effects of Skepticism in Late 18th Century Germany (John Christian Laursen)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739659006232,"sku":"9781442649217","price":46.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/skepticism-and-political-thought-in-the-seventeenth-and-eighteenth-centuries-hardback-9781442649217","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}