Doubt And Skepticism In Antiquity And The Renaissance

Download Doubt And Skepticism In Antiquity And The Renaissance full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Doubt And Skepticism In Antiquity And The Renaissance ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance

Author : Michelle Zerba
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139536915
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance by : Michelle Zerba

Download or read book Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance written by Michelle Zerba and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an interdisciplinary study of the forms and uses of doubt in works by Homer, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Cicero, Machiavelli, Shakespeare and Montaigne. Based on close analysis of literary and philosophical texts by these important authors, Michelle Zerba argues that doubt is a defining experience in antiquity and the Renaissance, one that constantly challenges the limits of thought and representation. The wide-ranging discussion considers issues that run the gamut from tragic loss to comic bombast, from psychological collapse to skeptical dexterity and from solitary reflection to political improvisation in civic contexts and puts Greek and Roman treatments of doubt into dialogue not only with sixteenth-century texts but with contemporary works as well. Using the past to engage questions of vital concern to our time, Zerba demonstrates that although doubt sometimes has destructive consequences, it can also be conducive to tolerance, discovery and conversation across sociopolitical boundaries.

Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance

Author : Michelle Zerba
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110702465X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance by : Michelle Zerba

Disenchantment, Skepticism, and the Early Modern Novel in Spain and France

Author : Ann T. Delehanty
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000825264
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Disenchantment, Skepticism, and the Early Modern Novel in Spain and France by : Ann T. Delehanty

Download or read book Disenchantment, Skepticism, and the Early Modern Novel in Spain and France written by Ann T. Delehanty and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines five early modern novels from the seventeenth century in Spain and France as examples of literature as a form of skeptical inquiry: Cervantes’s Don Quijote, Zayas’s Desengaños amorosos, Scarron’s Roman comique, Cyrano de Bergerac’s L’Autre Monde, and Mme. de Lafayette’s Zayde. These early modern novels encourage readers to take a critical stance toward accepted beliefs, through content that stages multiple encounters with the shockingly unfamiliar as well as through experiments in literary form, especially the interpolated story. At its broadest reach, this study asserts the fundamental value of literature as a means of encouraging discernment, recognizing the illusory, and honing critical acuity. In terms of the particularity of the historical moment, the volume also identifies the early modern novel as uniquely able to represent the conflicting value spheres of early modernity because of its ability to present multiple voices and its fascination with conflicting vantage points. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, Disenchantment, Skepticism, and the Early Modern Novel in Spain and France appeals to literary scholars and intellectual historians of the early modern period in Europe, as well as to advanced undergraduates and postgraduates studying the early novel, intellectual history, and philosophy of literature.

Skepticism and Belief in Early Modern England

Author : Melissa M. Caldwell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317054547
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Skepticism and Belief in Early Modern England by : Melissa M. Caldwell

Download or read book Skepticism and Belief in Early Modern England written by Melissa M. Caldwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central thesis of this book is that skepticism was instrumental to the defense of orthodox religion and the development of the identity of the Church of England. Examining the presence of skepticism in non-fiction prose literature at four transitional moments in English Protestant history during which orthodoxy was challenged and revised, Melissa Caldwell argues that a skeptical mode of thinking is embedded in the literary and rhetorical choices made by English writers who straddle the project of reform and the maintenance of orthodoxy after the Reformation in England. Far from being a radical belief simply indicative of an emerging secularism, she demonstrates the varied and complex appropriations of skeptical thought in early modern England. By examining a selection of various kinds of literature-including religious polemic, dialogue, pamphlets, sermons, and treatises-produced at key moments in early modern England’s religious history, Caldwell shows how the writers under consideration capitalized on the unscripted moral space that emerged in the wake of the Reformation. The result was a new kind of discourse--and a new form of orthodoxy--that sought both to exploit and to contain the skepticism unearthed by the Reformation.

Academic Scepticism in the Development of Early Modern Philosophy

Author : Plínio Junqueira Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319454242
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Academic Scepticism in the Development of Early Modern Philosophy by : Plínio Junqueira Smith

Download or read book Academic Scepticism in the Development of Early Modern Philosophy written by Plínio Junqueira Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how far some leading philosophers, from Montaigne to Hume, used Academic Scepticism to build their own brand of scepticism or took it as its main sceptical target. The book offers a detailed view of the main modern key figures, including Sanches, Charron, La Mothe Le Vayer, Bacon, Gassendi, Descartes, Malebranche, Pascal, Foucher, Huet, and Bayle. In addition, it provides a comprehensive assessment of the role of Academic Scepticism in Early Modern philosophy and a complete survey of the period. As a whole, the book offers a basis for a new, balanced assessment of the role played by scepticism in both its forms. Since Richard Popkin's works, there has been considerable interest in the role played by Pyrrhonian Scepticism in Early Modern Philosophy. Comparatively, Academic Scepticism was much neglected by scholars, despite some scattered important contributions. Furthermore, a general assessment of the presence of Academic Scepticism in Early Modern Philosophy is lacking. This book fills the void.

Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present

Author : Diego Machuca
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472511492
Total Pages : 763 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present by : Diego Machuca

Download or read book Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present written by Diego Machuca and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present is an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the entire history of skepticism. Divided chronologically into ancient, medieval, renaissance, modern, and contemporary periods, and featuring 50 specially-commissioned chapters from leading philosophers, this comprehensive volume is the first of its kind. By exploring each of the distinct traditions and providing expert insights, this extensive reference work: - covers major thinkers such as Sextus Empiricus, Cicero, Descartes, Hume, Spinoza, and Wittgenstein. - acknowledges the influence of ancient skeptical traditions on later philosophy and explains why it is still a fertile topic of inquiry among today's philosophers and historians of philosophy. - analyzes various forms of skepticism including Pyrrhonian, Academic, religious, moral, and neo-Pyrrhonian. - addresses issues in contemporary epistemology and indicates new directions of study. Skepticism, a driving force in the history of philosophy, remains at the center of debates in ethics, philosophy of religion, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present is an essential point of reference for any student, researcher, or practitioner of philosophy, presenting a systematic and historical survey of this core philosophical topic.

Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy

Author : Marco Sgarbi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3319141694
Total Pages : 3618 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy by : Marco Sgarbi

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy written by Marco Sgarbi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 3618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and the cultural context of Renaissance Philosophy. Furthermore, it covers Latin, Arabic, Jewish, Byzantine and vernacular philosophy, and includes entries on the cross-fertilization of these philosophical traditions. A unique feature of this encyclopedia is that it does not aim to define what Renaissance philosophy is, rather simply to cover the philosophy of the period between 1300 and 1650.

Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater

Author : Lauren Robertson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009225154
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater by : Lauren Robertson

Download or read book Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater written by Lauren Robertson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauren Robertson shows how the commercial theater transformed early modernity's crisis of uncertainty into spectacular onstage display.

The Plain Truth

Author : Thomas M. Lennon
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004171150
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Plain Truth by : Thomas M. Lennon

Download or read book The Plain Truth written by Thomas M. Lennon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical study of Pierre-Daniel Hueta (TM)s "Censura philosophiae cartesiana" (1689) and the controversy surrounding it, shows that there are good answers to the perennial standard criticisms of Descartesa (TM)s philosophy: the method of doubt, the cogito, proofs of Goda (TM)s existence, etc.

Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton

Author : David Louis Sedley
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472115280
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (152 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton by : David Louis Sedley

Download or read book Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton written by David Louis Sedley and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boldly investigates the relationship between the sublime as an aesthetic category and the emergence of skepticism as a philosophical problem

Systematic Atheology

Author : John R. Shook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135162637X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Systematic Atheology by : John R. Shook

Download or read book Systematic Atheology written by John R. Shook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atheology is the intellectual effort to understand atheism, defend the reasonableness of unbelief, and support nonbelievers in their encounters with religion. This book presents a historical overview of the development of atheology from ancient thought to the present day. It offers in-depth examinations of four distinctive schools of atheological thought: rationalist atheology, scientific atheology, moral atheology, and civic atheology. John R. Shook shows how a familiarity with atheology’s complex histories, forms, and strategies illuminates the contentious features of today’s atheist and secularist movements, which are just as capable of contesting each other as opposing religion. The result is a book that provides a disciplined and philosophically rigorous examination of atheism’s intellectual strategies for reasoning with theology. Systematic Atheology is an important contribution to the philosophy of religion, religious studies, secular studies, and the sociology and psychology of nonreligion.

Ethics and the Orator

Author : Gary Remer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022643916X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Ethics and the Orator by : Gary Remer

Download or read book Ethics and the Orator written by Gary Remer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prologue: Quintilian and John of Salisbury in the Ciceronian tradition -- Rhetoric, emotional manipulation, and morality: the contemporary relevance of Cicero vis-a-vis Aristotle -- Political morality, conventional morality, and decorum in Cicero -- Rhetoric as a balancing of ends: Cicero and Machiavelli -- Justus Lipsius, morally acceptable deceit, and prudence in the Ciceronian tradition -- The classical orator as political representative: Cicero and the modern concept of representation -- Deliberative democracy and rhetoric: Cicero, oratory, and conversation

Mythologies of Internal Exile in Elizabethan Verse

Author : A.D. Cousins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429686420
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Mythologies of Internal Exile in Elizabethan Verse by : A.D. Cousins

Download or read book Mythologies of Internal Exile in Elizabethan Verse written by A.D. Cousins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers of the English Renaissance, like their European contemporaries, frequently reflect on the phenomenon of exile—an experience that forces the individual to establish a new personal identity in an alien environment. Although there has been much commentary on this phenomenon as represented in English Renaissance literature, there has been nothing written at length about its counterpart, namely, internal exile: marginalization, or estrangement, within the homeland. This volume considers internal exile as a simultaneously twofold experience. It studies estrangement from one’s society and, correlatively, from one’s normative sense of self. In doing so, it focuses initially on the sonnet sequences by Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare (which is to say, the problematics of romance); then it examines the verse satires of Donne, Hall, and Marston (likewise, the problematics of anti-romance). This book argues that the authors of these major texts create mythologies—via the myths of (and accumulated mythographies about) Cupid, satyrs, and Proteus—through which to reflect on the doubleness of exile within one’s own community. These mythologies, at times accompanied by theologies, of alienation suggest that internal exile is a fluid and complex experience demanding multifarious reinterpretation of the incongruously expatriate self. The monograph thus establishes a new framework for understanding texts at once diverse yet central to the Elizabethan literary achievement.

Theory’s Autoimmunity

Author : Zahi Zalloua
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810137801
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Theory’s Autoimmunity by : Zahi Zalloua

Download or read book Theory’s Autoimmunity written by Zahi Zalloua and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging scholars from across humanistic fields grappling with the role and value of theory in our times, Theory's Autoimmunity argues for reclaiming theory's skepticism as a value. To cultivate theory's skeptical impulses is to embrace what Jacques Derrida has termed autoimmunity: a condition of openness to the outside—openness of the self, the community, democracy, or other ideals—that allows for change. Openness to change comes with risks, and the self-protective temptation to immunize oneself or one's community against these risks is strong. Yet without such risks, without openness to otherness, no encounter with the new, with difference, can ever take place. Without autoimmunity, theory becomes stagnant and programmatic, unable to receive and respond to the other or the event, to address, revise, and produce new meanings. Taking up the challenge of thinking theory as skepticism, with and against philosophy, this study turns to literature as an interlocutor, investigating the ways theory, like the literary works of Montaigne, Baudelaire, Stendhal, Morrison, or Duras, declines to put on the interpretive brakes, to stop reading at a point of understanding. Undoing and remaking itself, theory—those critical interpretive practices that revel in the creation and proliferation of meaning—becomes autoimmune.

The Skeptics of the Italian Renaissance

Author : John Owen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Skeptics of the Italian Renaissance by : John Owen

Download or read book The Skeptics of the Italian Renaissance written by John Owen and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sceptical Doubt and Disbelief in Modern European Thought

Author : Vicente Raga Rosaleny
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030553620
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Sceptical Doubt and Disbelief in Modern European Thought by : Vicente Raga Rosaleny

Download or read book Sceptical Doubt and Disbelief in Modern European Thought written by Vicente Raga Rosaleny and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines modern scepticism in all main philosophical areas: epistemology, science, metaphysics, morals, and religion. It features sixteen essays that explore its importance for modern thought. The contributions present diverse, mutually enriching interpretations of key thinkers, from Montaigne to Nietzsche. The book includes a look both at the relationship between Montaigne and Pascal and at Montaigne’s criticism of religious rationalism. It turns its attention to an investigation into the links between ancient scepticism and Bacon’s Doctrine of the Idols, as well as into the ancient problem of the criterion in Cartesian philosophy. Next, three essays focus on more general topics, like modern sceptical disturbances, clandestine literature and irreligion. Two essays investigate the role of scepticism in Bayle’s moral thinking and his theory of religious toleration. Hume’s sceptical philosophy is the subject of two papers by distinguished scholars. In addition, many contributors address the presence of scepticism in Kant and in the German Idealism, such as the role of Schulze's scepticism in the works of the young Hegel. The book closes with a paper on Nietzsche and scepticism, and an essay on the role of Popkin’s and Schmitt’s works on modern scepticism. This collection continues along a rich, fruitful path opened by Richard H. Popkin and pursued by many important scholars, like Gianni Paganini, John-Christian Laursen, and José Raimundo Maia Neto. It re-establishes that necessary dialogue between researchers of scepticism from all over the Americas, which began with Popkin, Oswaldo Porchat and Ezequiel de Olaso long ago. This insightful reflection on modern European scepticism will also serve as an important resource in the history of modern philosophy.

Sceptical Paths

Author : Giuseppe Veltri
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110591111
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Sceptical Paths by : Giuseppe Veltri

Download or read book Sceptical Paths written by Giuseppe Veltri and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sceptical Paths offers a fresh look at key junctions in the history of scepticism. Throughout this collection, key figures are reinterpreted, key arguments are reassessed, lesser-known figures are reintroduced, accepted distinctions are challenged, and new ideas are explored. The historiography of scepticism is usually based on a distinction between ancient and modern. The former is understood as a way of life which focuses on enquiry, whereas the latter is taken to be an epistemological approach which focuses on doubt. The studies in Sceptical Paths not only deepen the understanding of these approaches, but also show how ancient sceptical ideas find their way into modern thought, and modern sceptical ideas are anticipated in ancient thought. Within this state of affairs, the presence of sceptical arguments within Medieval philosophy is reflected in full force, not only enriching the historical narrative, but also introducing another layer to the sceptical discourse, namely its employment within theological settings. The various studies in this book exhibit the rich variety of expression in which scepticism manifests itself within various context and set against various philosophical and religious doctrines, schools, and approaches.