Richard H. Popkin

The History of Scepticism (eBook, PDF)

From Savonarola to Bayle

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is a thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Richard Popkin's classic The History of Scepticism, first published in 1960, revised in 1979, and since translated into numerous foreign languages. This authoritative work of historical scholarship has been revised throughout, including new material on: the introduction of ancient skepticism into Renaissance Europe; the role of Savonarola and his disciples in bringing Sextus Empiricus to the attention of European thinkers; and new material on Henry More, Blaise Pascal, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Nicolas Malebranche, G.W. Leibniz, Simon Foucher and Pierre-Daniel Huet, and Pierre Bayle. The bibliography has also been updated.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780195355390
• Artikelnr.: 38141314

Autorenporträt

Richard H. Popkin is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, Adjunct Professor f History and Philosophy at UCLA, and editor of the Columbia History of Western Philosophy.

Rezensionen

One of the aspects that makes Popkin's book (and his work in general) of special value is its taking into consideration major and minor thinkers whose views are not well-known ... Popkin's work has shown that scepticism was at least one of the crucial forces in modern thought Diego E. Machuca, Phil. Jahrbuch