The history of scepticism : from Savonarola to Bayle / / Richard H. Popkin
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| Autore: |
Popkin Richard H (Richard Henry), <1923-2005, >
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| Titolo: |
The history of scepticism : from Savonarola to Bayle / / Richard H. Popkin
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2003 |
| ©2003 | |
| Edizione: | Revised and expanded edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 149/.73 |
| Soggetto topico: | Skepticism - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Rev. and expanded ed. of: The history of scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza. Rev. and expanded ed. c1979. |
| 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: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The history of scepticism |
| ISBN: | 1-280-45293-5 |
| 0-19-802671-4 | |
| 0-19-535539-3 | |
| 1-4237-6125-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910449762503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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