The school of doubt : skepticism, history and politics in Cicero's Academica /

The School of Doubt conducts a close philological and philosophical reading of Cicero's Academica , a fragmentary work on sense-perception and Academic history written in the wake of Caesar's victory in the civil wars (45 BCE). Focusing in turn on the author's letters discussing the p...

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Main Author: Cappello, Orazio (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.

Series: Brill Studies in Skepticism 1.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390898.

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Call Number: PA6296.A23 C37 2019

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505 0 0 |a Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Skepticism and Its Contexts. The Academica in Cicero's Correspondence -- The Shadows of Apography -- Counter-Figuring Indifference: Varro and the Politics of Composition -- Effecting Cicero: Fiction, Criticism and Subjectivity -- The Pedigree of Doubt: Ciceronian Essays in the Historiography of Philosophy -- Historical Philosophy: Cicero and the Academica in Their Historiographical Contexts -- Philosophy's Parallel Itineraries -- Progress and Other Stories: Historical Models in Cicero's Philosophy -- The Practice and Tradition of Philosophia: Debate, Critique and Community in the Academica -- Skeptical Strategies: Dialectic, Assimilation, Rhetoric -- Re-Configuring Conflict: Looking for Philo and Antiochus -- Dialectic and Self-Definition: The Sense of Arguing in Cicero's Academica -- Dialectical Trajectories of Ciceronian Skepticism -- Conclusion -- Back Matter -- Bibliography. 
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