04011nam 2200661Ia 450 991081590960332120200520144314.01-139-54034-31-107-23204-X1-139-17588-21-283-52219-51-139-52755-X97866138346451-139-52635-91-139-53221-91-139-53102-61-139-52874-2(CKB)2670000000231654(EBL)977208(OCoLC)804664901(SSID)ssj0000695325(PQKBManifestationID)11421553(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000695325(PQKBWorkID)10675190(PQKB)10253856(UkCbUP)CR9781139175883(MiAaPQ)EBC977208(Au-PeEL)EBL977208(CaPaEBR)ebr10583289(CaONFJC)MIL383464(EXLCZ)99267000000023165420120320d2012 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDoubt and skepticism in antiquity and the Renaissance /Michelle ZerbaCambridge, [UK] ;New York Cambridge University Press20121 online resource (x, 260 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).1-107-02465-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Part 1: "Farewell the tranquil mind" : tragic doubt in Homer's Iliad, Sophocles' Philoctetes, and Shakespeare's Othello. Achilles' doubt and heroism-at-one-remove in Homer's Iliad ; Moral doubt and the claims of pity in Sophocles' Philoctetes ; "Do as if for surety" : doubt and delusions of certainty in Shakespeare's Othello -- Part 2: Comic skepticism and polytropic strategies in Homer's Odyssey, Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria, and Shakespeare's As you like it. Wandering Odysseus, Pyrrhonist Penelope, and the return from alienation ; Skeptical inversions of gender and genre in Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria and Shakespeare's As you like it -- Part 3: Skepticism, politics, and rhetoric in the works of Cicero, Machiavelli, and Montaigne. Skeptical constructions of identity in Roman and Renaissance humanism : the useful, the sublime, and the primitivist ; Academic skepticism and Cicero's Republican politics ; A Ciceronian Machiavelli ; Montaigne's Pyrrhonist politics.This book is an interdisciplinary study of the forms and uses of doubt in works by Homer, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Cicero, Machiavelli, Shakespeare and Montaigne. Based on close analysis of literary and philosophical texts by these important authors, Michelle Zerba argues that doubt is a defining experience in antiquity and the Renaissance, one that constantly challenges the limits of thought and representation. The wide-ranging discussion considers issues that run the gamut from tragic loss to comic bombast, from psychological collapse to skeptical dexterity and from solitary reflection to political improvisation in civic contexts and puts Greek and Roman treatments of doubt into dialogue not only with sixteenth-century texts but with contemporary works as well. Using the past to engage questions of vital concern to our time, Zerba demonstrates that although doubt sometimes has destructive consequences, it can also be conducive to tolerance, discovery and conversation across sociopolitical boundaries.Belief and doubtHistorySkepticismHistoryBelief and doubtHistory.SkepticismHistory.121/.509Zerba Michelle1953-548450MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815909603321Doubt and skepticism in antiquity and the Renaissance4057426UNINA