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- catalog abstract ""'The more we enquire, the less we can resolve, ' wrote Johnson. Scepticism - a reasoned emphasis on the severe limitations of rationality - would seem to undermine the grounds of belief and action. But in some of the best eighteenth-century literature, a theoretically paralysing critique of the pretensions of reason, precept, and language went hand in hand with a vigorous intellectual, moral, and linguistic confidence. To realize philosophical scepticism as literature was effectively to transform it. Dr. Parker traces the presence of this life-giving irony in works by Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson, discusses its source in Locke and its inspiration in Montaigne, and relates it more broadly to the social self-consciousness of eighteenth-century culture. The argument serves as a reminder that radical scepticism is not the invention of the late twentieth century, and that its strategies and implications have never been more interestingly explored than in the eighteenth."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13031030.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""'The more we enquire, the less we can resolve, ' wrote Johnson. Scepticism - a reasoned emphasis on the severe limitations of rationality - would seem to undermine the grounds of belief and action. But in some of the best eighteenth-century literature, a theoretically paralysing critique of the pretensions of reason, precept, and language went hand in hand with a vigorous intellectual, moral, and linguistic confidence. To realize philosophical scepticism as literature was effectively to transform it. Dr. Parker traces the presence of this life-giving irony in works by Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson, discusses its source in Locke and its inspiration in Montaigne, and relates it more broadly to the social self-consciousness of eighteenth-century culture. The argument serves as a reminder that radical scepticism is not the invention of the late twentieth century, and that its strategies and implications have never been more interestingly explored than in the eighteenth."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Rational ignorance and sceptical thinking -- Just supposing: Locke's Essay concerning human understanding -- 'Sworn to no master': Pope's scepticism in the Epistle to Bolingbroke and An essay on man -- Innocence and simulation in the scepticism of Hume -- Tristram Shandy: singularity and the single life -- Johnson's conclusiveness.".
- catalog extent "ix, 290 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0199253188".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "820.9005 22".
- catalog subject "English literature 18th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Hume, David, 1711-1776.".
- catalog subject "Johnson, Samuel, 1691-1773.".
- catalog subject "Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.".
- catalog subject "PR448.S53 P37 2003".
- catalog subject "Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.".
- catalog subject "Skepticism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Rational ignorance and sceptical thinking -- Just supposing: Locke's Essay concerning human understanding -- 'Sworn to no master': Pope's scepticism in the Epistle to Bolingbroke and An essay on man -- Innocence and simulation in the scepticism of Hume -- Tristram Shandy: singularity and the single life -- Johnson's conclusiveness.".
- catalog title "Scepticism and literature : an essay on Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson / Fred Parker.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".