The history of scepticism : from Savonarola to Bayle
- Author/Creator:
- Popkin, Richard H. 1923-2005, (Richard Henry), author
- Publication/Creation:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2003
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Edition:
- Revised and expanded edition.
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Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- The history of scepticism : from Savonarola to Bayle / Richard H. Popkin
- Related/Included Titles:
- History of scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza.
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- Additional Author/Creators:
- Popkin, Richard H. (Richard Henry), 1923-2005. History of scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Skepticism--History
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; 1 The Intellectual Crisis of the Reformation; 2 The Revival of Greek Scepticism in the Sixteenth Century; 3 Michel de Montaigne and the Nouveaux Pyrrhoniens; 4 The Influence of the New Pyrrhonism; 5 The Libertins Érudits; 6 The Counterattack Begins; 7 Constructive or Mitigated Scepticism; 8 Herbert of Cherbury and Jean de Silhon; 9 Descartes: Conqueror of Scepticism; 10 Descartes: Sceptique Malgré Lui; 11 Some Spiritual and Religious Answers to Scepticism and Descartes: Henry More, Blaise Pascal, and Quietists
12 Political and Practical Answers to Scepticism: Thomas Hobbes13 Philosophers of the Royal Society: Wilkins, Boyle, and Glanvill; 14 Biblical Criticism and the Beginning of Religious Scepticism; 15 Spinoza's Scepticism and Antiscepticism; 16 Scepticism and Late Seventeenth-Century Metaphysics; 17 The New Sceptics: Simon Foucher and Pierre-Daniel Huet; 18 Pierre Bayle: Superscepticism and the Beginnings of Enlightenment Dogmatism; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z - Summary:
- In this third updated edition of a classic book first published in 1960, there are three new chapters, one on Savonarola, one on Henry More and Ralph Cudworth, and one on Pascal. This authoritative treatment of the theme of scepticism and its historical impacts should appeal to scholars and students of early modern history
- Language:
- English
- Language Note:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (440 p.)
- General Note:
- Rev. and expanded ed. of: The history of scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza. Rev. and expanded ed. c1979.
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- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936527658902486
- ISBN:
- 0-19-773050-7
1-280-45293-5
0-19-802671-4
0-19-535539-3
1-4237-6125-1 - OCLC Number:
- 476013577
466428797
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