The luxury of skepticism
Subtitle: politics, philosophy, and dialogue in the English public sphere, 1660-1740
By: Timothy Dykstal.
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Dialogues, English -- History and criticism; Skepticism -- History; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660-1714; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1714-1760
Description: "How is it that a controversy about politics becomes a conversation about philosophy? From Hobbes to Harrington to Shafesbury to Berkeley, Timothy Dykstal explores the public function of the philosophical dialogue at the beginning of England's long eighteenth century.

From his close analysis of the works of the era's great philosophers, Dykstal argues that the dialogue as a literary form helped to develop, and subsequently transform, the public sphere in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on the author's doctoral dissertation (University of Chicago).