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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: José R. Maia NetoPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2022 Volume: 238 Weight: 0.524kg ISBN: 9783030947156ISBN 10: 3030947157 Pages: 221 Publication Date: 29 June 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsChapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Erudite libertines 2.1 Pintard’s Libertinage Érudit and Huet’s place in the movement. 2.2 A man of letters: Hellenist and Biblical scholar, translator, poet, literary theorist, novelist, and character 2.3 Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655) 2.4 François de La Mothe Le Vayer (1588-1672) 2.5 Montaigne and Charron Bibliography Chapter 3 Traité philosophique de la faiblesse de l’esprit humain: first book of Huet’s planned Alnetanae Quaestiones in five books 3.1 Huet’s philosophical project 3.2 The originally planned Alnetanae Quaestiones 3.3 Huet’s fictional interlocutors in planned AQ 3.3.1 Gautruche: original interlocutor of books III-V of planned AQ (books I-III of published AQ) 3.3.2 Le Valois: original interlocutor of book II of planned AQ (published Censura) 3.3.3 Du Hamel: original interlocutor of book I of planned AQ (published Traité) 3.4 Synthesis of the major modifications in the Latin manuscripts 3.4.1 Major voluntary modifications 3.4.2 Major modifications to hide authorship 3.4.3 Major modifications to address criticisms 3.5 The history of the manuscripts of the Traité after seclusion from AQ 3.6 Conclusions Bibliography Chapter 4 From Cartesian physics to Cartesian skepticism against Cartesian metaphysics 4.1 The relevance of Descartes in Huet’s intellectual life 4.2 The first reception 4.3 Huet as a mitigated Cartesian natural philosopher 4.4 Descartes’s attack on classic scholarship 4.5 Censura: a skeptical attack on Descartes’s metaphysics 4.6 The reason-faith distinction Bibliography Chapter 5 French Skeptics in the second half of 17th century 5.1 Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) 5.1.1 Origenis 5.1.2 Demonstratio 5.1.3 Traité Philosophique and Concordia 5.2 Simon Foucher (1644-1696) 5.3 Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) Bibliography Chapter 6 Conclusion Appendix – Chronological table of Huet’s life, works (marked in bold) and selected personal philosophical libraryReviewsAuthor InformationJosé R. Maia Neto is an expert on the history of modern scepticism who teaches at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. His areas of interest also include early modern history of ideas (philosophical, scientific and religious), Socrates and ancient scepticism, philosophy and literature, and the Brazilian Nineteenth century writer Machado de Assis. He is the author of Machado de Assis, the Brazilian Pyrrhonian (Purdue U. P, 1994), The Christianization of Pyrrhonism (Kluwer, 1995) and Academic Skepticism in Seventeenth-Century French Philosophy (Springer, 2014). With Richard Popkin, he co-edited Skepticism in Renaissance and Post-Renaissance Thought (Humanity Books, 2004) and Skepticism, an Anthology (Prometheus Books, 2007); with Gianni Paganini he co-edited Renaissance Scepticisms (Springer, 2009), and with G. Paganini and John Laursen, Skepticism in the Modern Age (Brill, 2009). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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