The Skeptical Enlightenment: Doubt and Certainty in the Age of Reason (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment) - Softcover

 
9781786941947: The Skeptical Enlightenment: Doubt and Certainty in the Age of Reason (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment)

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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.

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Jeffrey D. Burson is Associate Professor of French History and the Enlightenment at Georgia Southern University. He is the author of 'The Rise and Fall of Theological Enlightenment: Jean-Martin de Prades and Ideological Polarization in Eighteenth-Century France' (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), and 'The Culture of Enlightening and the Entangled Life of Abbé Claude Yvon' (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019), in addition to numerous articles and chapters in edited collections of essays. He is co-editor, with Ulrich L. Lehner, of 'Enlightenment and Catholicism in Europe: A Transnational History' (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014) and, with Jonathan Wright, of 'The Jesuit Suppression in Global Context: Causes, Events, and Consequences' (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
Anton M. Matytsin is Assistant Professor of European History at Kenyon College. He is the author of 'The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016) and co-editor, with Dan Edelstein, of 'Let There Be Enlightenment: The Religious and Mystical Sources of Rationality' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018).

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