The marriage of philology and scepticism : uncertainty and conjecture in early modern scholarship and thought / edited by Gian Mario Cao, Anthony Grafton and Jill Kraye.
"This volume comprises the revised and expanded versions of eight papers originally presented at the workshop The Marriage of Philology and Scepticism: Uncertainty and Conjecture in Early Modern Scholarship and Thought, held on 22 June 2012 at the Warburg Institute, London"--Page ix. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The Freethinking, New Testament textual criticism and censorship : Anthony Collins, Richard Bentley and the Index librorum prohibitorum / Gian Mario Cao. Medieval precedents for sceptical philology / Jan M. Ziolkowski -- The other philology : resolving doubts about textual meaning in early modern law and theology / Ian Maclean -- Divination : towards the history of a philological term / Anthony Grafton -- Coping with philological doubt : sixteenth-century approaches to the text of Seneca / Jill Kraye -- Critical method in Lambinus's Lucretius : collation and interpolation / David Butterfield -- Philology and scepticism : early modern scholars at work on the text of the Bible / Scott Mandelbrote -- Freethinking, New Testament textual criticism and censorship : Anthony Collins, Richard Bentley and the Index librorum prohibitorum / Gian Mario Cao.
Summary:
"This volume, containing the revised and expanded versions of eight papers originally presented at a workshop held at the Warburg Institute in June 2012, addresses the question of uncertainty in early modern scholarship and thought. This and other related concepts conventionally assigned to the sceptical tradition are identified and explored in the activity of scholars and editors, whose varying degree of philosophical awareness does not detract from the significance of their ways of conceiving, or coping with, textual uncertainty. The methods of the history of ideas and of classical scholarship are combined in an effort to bring out the methodological assumptions of specific philological projects, editorial strategies and technical devices, as well as to track their possible overlap and interplay with patterns of thought revolving around notions such as uncertainty and conjectural knowledge. The eight papers confront an array of problems, texts, scholars and intellectual contexts, from introductory assessments of the nature of Greek scepticism, particularly in its relation to ancient grammar and medieval thought, to in-depth analyses of the semantic family of uncertainty, as well as of the notion of divination; from case studies of the textual transmission, and relevant editorial problems, of Seneca and Lucretius, to explorations of larger debates in the area of biblical philology, with special attention paid to key figures such as Patrick Young, Richard Bentley and Anthony Collins."--P. [4] of cover.
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