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

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

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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 process of compo...

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Superior document:Brill studies in skepticism
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Cappello, Orazio,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Brill Studies in Skepticism 1.
Physical Description:1 online resource (396 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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