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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825737003321

Autore

Popkin Richard H (Richard Henry), <1923-2005, >

Titolo

The history of scepticism : from Savonarola to Bayle / / Richard Popkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-773050-7

1-280-45293-5

0-19-802671-4

0-19-535539-3

1-4237-6125-1

Edizione

[Revised and expanded edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (440 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online.

Altri autori (Persone)

PopkinRichard H <1923-> (Richard Henry)

Disciplina

149/.73

Soggetti

Skepticism - History

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previous edition: published as The history of scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza. Ewing, N.J.: University of California, 1979.

Previously issued in print: 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

This work has been revised and expanded throughout with three new



chapters on Savonarola, Henry More and Ralph Cudworth, and Pascal. This authoritative treatment of the theme of scepticism and its historical impact should appeal to scholars and students of early modern history now as much as ever.