β Scribed by John Christian Laursen (editor); Gianni Paganini (editor)
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Surveying the use of skepticism in works by Hobbes, Descartes, Hume, Smith, and Kant, among others, these essays demonstrate the pervasive impact of skepticism on the intellectual landscape of early modern Europe.
Contents
Introduction
1. Neither Philosophy nor Politics? The Ancient Pyrrhonian Approach to Everday Life
2. La Mothe Le Vayer and Political Skepticism
3. Hobbes and the French Skeptics
4. Questionnnements sceptiques et politiques de la fable: les Β« autres mondes Β» du libertinage Γ©rudit
5. 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
6. Bernard Mandevilleβs Skeptical Political Philosophy
7. David Hume: Skepticism in Politics?
8. Denis Diderot and the Politics of Materialist Skepticism
9. Rousseau: Philosophical and Religious Skepticism and Political Dogmatism
10. Skepticism and Political Economy: Smith, Hume, and Rousseau
11. Can a Skeptic Be a Reformer? Skepticism in Morals and Politics during the Enlightenment: The Case of Voltaire
12. From General Skepticism to Complete Dogmatism: Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville
13. Carl Friedrich StΓ€udlinβs Diagnosis of the Political Effects of Skepticism in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany
Contributors
Index
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