The Resource The social history of skepticism : experience and doubt in early modern culture, Brendan Dooley
The social history of skepticism : experience and doubt in early modern culture, Brendan Dooley
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- Summary
- "Do new information technologies always produce progress and enlightenment? No, at least not according to observers in seventeenth-century Europe. As Brendan Dooley demonstrates in The Social History of Skepticism, the transformation of information about present and past politics into a saleable product, whether in the form of commissioned histories or in the form of journalism, turned writers into speculators, information into opinion, and readers into critics. The result was a powerful current of skepticism with extraordinary consequences. Combined with late-seventeenth-century developments in other areas of thought and writing, it produced skepticism about the possibility of gaining any historical knowledge at all." "Joining the history of ideas to the history of journalism and publishing, Dooley sets out to discover when early modern people believed their political informants and when they did not."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 213 pages
- Contents
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- News Unfit to Print
- Politics' New Clothes
- Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat
- Veritas Filia Temporis
- Isbn
- 9780801861420
- Label
- The social history of skepticism : experience and doubt in early modern culture
- Title
- The social history of skepticism
- Title remainder
- experience and doubt in early modern culture
- Statement of responsibility
- Brendan Dooley
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Do new information technologies always produce progress and enlightenment? No, at least not according to observers in seventeenth-century Europe. As Brendan Dooley demonstrates in The Social History of Skepticism, the transformation of information about present and past politics into a saleable product, whether in the form of commissioned histories or in the form of journalism, turned writers into speculators, information into opinion, and readers into critics. The result was a powerful current of skepticism with extraordinary consequences. Combined with late-seventeenth-century developments in other areas of thought and writing, it produced skepticism about the possibility of gaining any historical knowledge at all." "Joining the history of ideas to the history of journalism and publishing, Dooley sets out to discover when early modern people believed their political informants and when they did not."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1953-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Dooley, Brendan Maurice
- Dewey number
- 070.9
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
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- H31
- PN4801
- LC item number
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- .J6
- .D66 1999
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science
- Series volume
- 117th ser., 2
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Journalism
- Journalism
- Press and politics
- Press and politics
- Skepticism
- Historiography
- Label
- The social history of skepticism : experience and doubt in early modern culture, Brendan Dooley
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-203) and index
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- volume
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- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- txt
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- Contents
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- News Unfit to Print
- Politics' New Clothes
- Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat
- Veritas Filia Temporis
- Control code
- 40668156
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- viii, 213 pages
- Isbn
- 9780801861420
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 99011406
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- The social history of skepticism : experience and doubt in early modern culture, Brendan Dooley
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-203) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- News Unfit to Print
- Politics' New Clothes
- Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat
- Veritas Filia Temporis
- Control code
- 40668156
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- viii, 213 pages
- Isbn
- 9780801861420
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 99011406
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- unmediated
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