Download or read book Satisfying Skepticism written by Ellen Spolsky and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on early modern Europe, Spolsky (English, Bar-Ilan U., Israel) considers the structure and detail of the local cultural world in which the brain constructs itself and how the individual negotiates the demands of that world. She argues against the inevitability of a tragic interpretation of the conditions of human knowing, suggesting instead that evidence of complex cultural texts demonstrates that the benefits derived from human creativity more than adequately compensates for any satisfaction an idealize knowing might provide. c. Book News Inc.