| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 415 pages) |
| Contents |
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. Decartes: conqueror of scepticism -- 10. Decartes: 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 Hobbes -- 13. 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 |
| Summary |
This is the third edition of a classic book first published in 1960, which has sold thousands of copies in two paperback edition and has been translated into several foreign languages. Popkin's work has generated innumerable citations, and remains a valuable stimulus to current historical research. In this updated version, he has revised and expanded throughout, and has added 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 impact will appeal to scholars and students of early modern history now as much as ever |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-407) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Skepticism -- History
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Rationalism.
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Skepticism
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Popkin, Richard Henry, 1923-
History of scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza
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| ISBN |
9780195355390 |
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0195355393 |
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9780198026716 |
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0198026714 |
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1423761251 |
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9781423761259 |
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