Scepticism in the Eighteenth Century: Enlightenment, Lumières, Aufklärung

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Charles, Sébastien (Editor), J. Smith, Plínio (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 210
• Subjects: Philosophy.; History.; History of Philosophy.; History, general.

Often portrayed as a period bound by the dogma of slavish obedience to the diktats of reason and progress, the Age of Enlightenment is revealed by this profound analysis to have been riddled with skeptical attitudes and characters, even in the Enlightenment's most codified locations, such as Ge...