The Skeptical Enlightenment Doubt and Certainty in the Age of Reason |
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| Editor:
| Burson, Jeffrey D.
Matytsin, Anton M. |
| Series title: | Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78694-194-7 |
| Publication Date: | May 2019 |
| Publisher: | Liverpool University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $99.00 |
Book Description:
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This collection of essays challenges the notion that the eighteenth century was an unalloyed ?Age of Reason?, and instead depicts a complicated Enlightenment culture to which philosophical skepticism was far more central than hitherto conceived. This volume examines the process by which skepticism was challenged and gradually tamed to bring about an anxious confidence in the powers of human understanding.
This collection of essays challenges the notion that the eighteenth century was an unalloyed ?Age of Reason?, and instead depicts a complicated Enlightenment culture to which philosophical skepticism was far more central than hitherto conceived. This volume examines the process by which skepticism was challenged and gradually tamed to bring about an anxious confidence in the powers of human understanding.