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303 pages ; 21 cm Reprint of the 1952 ed Includes index Bibliographical references included in "Footnotes" (p. 282-299) Prolegomena to the definition of scepticism -- An historical definition of scepticism -- Seventeenth-century scepticism: the knot -- John Donne and the poetry of scepticism -- Sir Thomas Browne and the Genesis of paradox -- Richard Baxter and the problem of certainty -- Jeremy Taylor, the sceptic as churchman -- Joseph Glanvill, self-conscious sceptic -- The eighteenth century: untying the knot -- Contemporary implications of scepticism -- Postscript: The despair of God
- Author
- Margaret Lenore Wiley
- Publisher
- New York: Greenwood Press
- Published
- 1968
- Language
- EN
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Humanities
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