The Luxury of Skepticism
Subtitle: Politics, Philosophy, and Dialogue in the English Public
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: April 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780813920030
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Logic; Social & political philosophy; Political; History & Surveys - Modern - Renaissance Era; Political Philosophy; Political Science (Specific Aspects); Philosophy; English; History: World; History & Theory - General; Political History; Political Science; Dialogues, English; General; 17th century; 18th century; Great Britain; History; History and criticism
First sentence: IN THE EPISTLE dedicatory to Dramatic Poesie, AnEssay (1668), before he asserts that he intended his "whole discourse" to be "skeptical," John Dryden expresses to his friend Lord Buckhurst the hope that his dialogue has placed him in the company not of those "pedants" who have "prosecuted" controversy "with violence of words" but of those "gentlemen" who have "managed" it "with candour and civility."1