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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 pr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2019.
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| Colección: | Brill studies in skepticism ;
v. 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; The School of Doubt: Skepticism, History and Politics in Cicero's Academica; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: Skepticism and Its Contexts. The Academica in Cicero's Correspondence; 1 The Shadows of Apography; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Stories from the Writer's Desk: Documenting Cicero's Writing of the Academica; 1.3 Revision, Distribution and Reception: Cicero and His Academica; 2 Counter-Figuring Indifference: Varro and the Politics of Composition; 2.1 Epistolary Thresholds: The Letter in Its Context
- 2.2 The Letter as Reluctant Agit-Prop: The Correspondence between Cicero and Varro2.3 The Dedication Letter: ad Familiares 9.8; 3 Effecting Cicero: Fiction, Criticism and Subjectivity; 3.1 The Epistolary Cicero: Dialogue, Friendship and the Subject of the Letters; 3.2 On the Horizon: The Shrine to Tullia and Caesar's Return; 3.3 Conclusion; Part 2: The Pedigree of Doubt: Ciceronian Essays in the Historiography of Philosophy; 4 Historical Philosophy: Cicero and the Academica in Their Historiographical Contexts; 4.1 Program Notes; 4.2 Situating the Academica: The Corpus
- 4.3 Situating the Academica: The Tradition4.4 Setting the Scene: Re-reading the Index; 5 Philosophy's Parallel Itineraries; 5.1 Where Philosophy Begins: Epistemology and Historiography in the Academica; 5.2 The Art of the Beginning: The Epistemological Foundation of Life; 5.3 The Beginning of the Story/The Story of the Beginning; 6 Progress and Other Stories: Historical Models in Cicero's Philosophy; 6.1 Revision, Imitation and Development in the Academica: The Alternative Paths of Philosophical History
- 6.2 Embedded Narratives, Narrative Inconsistencies and the Inclusivity of Cicero's History6.3 Organizing the Field: The Disagreement of Philosophers and the Carneadea Divisio; 6.4 Structure and Meaning: Hegel, Gueroult and Cicero; 6.5 Interpretation, Position and Segmentation: Arcesilaus and Carneades in the Lucullus; 7 The Practice and Tradition of Philosophia: Debate, Critique and Community in the Academica; 7.1 The Academy as Theatre; 7.2 Critical Philosophy, or Philosophy at the Limit; 7.3 Community: Reason, Canon and Philosophy; 7.4 Conclusion
- Part 3: Skeptical Strategies: Dialectic, Assimilation, Rhetoric8 Re-Configuring Conflict: Looking for Philo and Antiochus; 8.1 Who Speaks in the Academica; 8.2 Framing the Dialogue: The Rhetoric of Philosophy; 8.3 Antiochus versus Philo: Fictionalizing the Drift; 8.4 Philo and Antiochus: Profiles in Conversation; 8.5 Parallel Trajectories and the Myth of Crisis; 9 Dialectic and Self-Definition: The Sense of Arguing in Cicero's Academica; 9.1 Debate and the Philosophical Tradition; 9.2 The Academy and the Stoa; 10 Dialectical Trajectories of Ciceronian Skepticism