Jeffrey D. Burson is Associate Professor of French History and the Enlightenment at Georgia Southern University. He is the author of 'The Rise and Fall of Theological Enlightenment: Jean-Martin de Prades and Ideological Polarization in Eighteenth-Century France' (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), and 'The Culture of Enlightening and the Entangled Life of Abbé Claude Yvon' (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019), in addition to numerous articles and chapters in edited collections of essays. He is co-editor, with Ulrich L. Lehner, of 'Enlightenment and Catholicism in Europe: A Transnational History' (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014) and, with Jonathan Wright, of 'The Jesuit Suppression in Global Context: Causes, Events, and Consequences' (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Anton M. Matytsin is Assistant Professor of European History at Kenyon College. He is the author of 'The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016) and co-editor, with Dan Edelstein, of 'Let There Be Enlightenment: The Religious and Mystical Sources of Rationality' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018).

• Anton M. Matytsin and Jeffrey D. Burson, Introduction: from an “age Of skepticism” to an “age Of reason”Jeffrey D. Burson, Healing the skeptical crisis and rectifying Cartesianisms: the notion of the Jesuit synthesis revisitedElena Rapetti, “A man who sticks only to his own sentiments”: Pierre-Daniel Huet’s Traité philosophique de la foiblesse de l’esprit humainMartin Mulsow and John Christian Laursen, Georg Michael Heber on legal and (possibly) religious skepticism in early Enlightenment GermanySébastien Charles, George Berkeley, or the skeptic in spite of himselfRodrigo Brandão, Voltaire and modern skeptical doubtJohn P. Wright, Skepticism and incomprehensibility in Bayle and HumeAnton M. Matytsin, Taming thought with practice: philosophical skepticism in the EncyclopédieAlan Charles Kors, Political skepticism in Holbach’s circleSummariesBiographies of contributorsBibliographyIndex

'The new wave of the scholarship on skepticism that emerges from this [book] is really impressive and will mark a cornerstone for the study of eighteenth-century philosophy.' Gianni Paganini, Erudition and the Republic of Letters

Jeffrey D. Burson is Associate Professor of French History and the Enlightenment at Georgia Southern University. He is the author of 'The Rise and Fall of Theological Enlightenment: Jean-Martin de Prades and Ideological Polarization in Eighteenth-Century France' (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), and 'The Culture of Enlightening and the Entangled Life of Abbé Claude Yvon' (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019), in addition to numerous articles and chapters in edited collections of essays. He is co-editor, with Ulrich L. Lehner, of 'Enlightenment and Catholicism in Europe: A Transnational History' (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014) and, with Jonathan Wright, of 'The Jesuit Suppression in Global Context: Causes, Events, and Consequences' (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Anton M. Matytsin is Assistant Professor of European History at Kenyon College. He is the author of 'The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016) and co-editor, with Dan Edelstein, of 'Let There Be Enlightenment: The Religious and Mystical Sources of Rationality' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018).

• Anton M. Matytsin and Jeffrey D. Burson, Introduction: from an “age Of skepticism” to an “age Of reason”Jeffrey D. Burson, Healing the skeptical crisis and rectifying Cartesianisms: the notion of the Jesuit synthesis revisitedElena Rapetti, “A man who sticks only to his own sentiments”: Pierre-Daniel Huet’s Traité philosophique de la foiblesse de l’esprit humainMartin Mulsow and John Christian Laursen, Georg Michael Heber on legal and (possibly) religious skepticism in early Enlightenment GermanySébastien Charles, George Berkeley, or the skeptic in spite of himselfRodrigo Brandão, Voltaire and modern skeptical doubtJohn P. Wright, Skepticism and incomprehensibility in Bayle and HumeAnton M. Matytsin, Taming thought with practice: philosophical skepticism in the EncyclopédieAlan Charles Kors, Political skepticism in Holbach’s circleSummariesBiographies of contributorsBibliographyIndex

'The new wave of the scholarship on skepticism that emerges from this [book] is really impressive and will mark a cornerstone for the study of eighteenth-century philosophy.' Gianni Paganini, Erudition and the Republic of Letters

Jeffrey D. Burson is Associate Professor of French History and the Enlightenment at Georgia Southern University. He is the author of 'The Rise and Fall of Theological Enlightenment: Jean-Martin de Prades and Ideological Polarization in Eighteenth-Century France' (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010), and 'The Culture of Enlightening and the Entangled Life of Abbé Claude Yvon' (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019), in addition to numerous articles and chapters in edited collections of essays. He is co-editor, with Ulrich L. Lehner, of 'Enlightenment and Catholicism in Europe: A Transnational History' (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014) and, with Jonathan Wright, of 'The Jesuit Suppression in Global Context: Causes, Events, and Consequences' (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Anton M. Matytsin is Assistant Professor of European History at Kenyon College. He is the author of 'The Specter of Skepticism in the Age of Enlightenment' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016) and co-editor, with Dan Edelstein, of 'Let There Be Enlightenment: The Religious and Mystical Sources of Rationality' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018).

• Anton M. Matytsin and Jeffrey D. Burson, Introduction: from an “age Of skepticism” to an “age Of reason”Jeffrey D. Burson, Healing the skeptical crisis and rectifying Cartesianisms: the notion of the Jesuit synthesis revisitedElena Rapetti, “A man who sticks only to his own sentiments”: Pierre-Daniel Huet’s Traité philosophique de la foiblesse de l’esprit humainMartin Mulsow and John Christian Laursen, Georg Michael Heber on legal and (possibly) religious skepticism in early Enlightenment GermanySébastien Charles, George Berkeley, or the skeptic in spite of himselfRodrigo Brandão, Voltaire and modern skeptical doubtJohn P. Wright, Skepticism and incomprehensibility in Bayle and HumeAnton M. Matytsin, Taming thought with practice: philosophical skepticism in the EncyclopédieAlan Charles Kors, Political skepticism in Holbach’s circleSummariesBiographies of contributorsBibliographyIndex

'The new wave of the scholarship on skepticism that emerges from this [book] is really impressive and will mark a cornerstone for the study of eighteenth-century philosophy.' Gianni Paganini, Erudition and the Republic of Letters