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The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment
Anton M. Matytsin
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Description for The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment
Hardback. This complex and engaging book offers a powerful new explanation of how Enlightenment thinkers came to understand the purposes and the boundaries of rational inquiry. Num Pages: 376 pages, 3, 3 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JD; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 30. Weight in Grams: 640.
The ancient Greek philosophy of Pyrrhonian skepticism spread across a wide spectrum of disciplines in the 1600s, casting a shadow over the European learned world. The early modern skeptics expressed doubt concerning the existence of an objective reality independent of human perception. They also questioned long-standing philosophical assumptions and, at times, undermined the foundations of political, moral, and religious authorities. How did eighteenth-century scholars overcome this skeptical crisis of confidence to usher in the so-called Age of Reason? In The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment, Anton Matytsin describes how skeptical rhetoric forced philosophers to ... Read more
The ancient Greek philosophy of Pyrrhonian skepticism spread across a wide spectrum of disciplines in the 1600s, casting a shadow over the European learned world. The early modern skeptics expressed doubt concerning the existence of an objective reality independent of human perception. They also questioned long-standing philosophical assumptions and, at times, undermined the foundations of political, moral, and religious authorities. How did eighteenth-century scholars overcome this skeptical crisis of confidence to usher in the so-called Age of Reason? In The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment, Anton Matytsin describes how skeptical rhetoric forced philosophers to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421420523
SKU
V9781421420523
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About Anton M. Matytsin
Anton M. Matytsin is an assistant professor of history at Kenyon College.
Reviews for The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment
... enriching study of previously neglected sources of epistemological transformation during the Enlightenment ear. Matytsin's work uncovers a dialectical pathway in which interchanges between skeptics and their opponents formed a new conception of reason, sufficiently modest to have relinquished metaphysics, but sufficiently bold to motivate the encyclopedists' expansive ambitions, and to play a formative role in establishing the modern disciplinary ... Read more