The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle - Softcover

Popkin, Richard H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195107683 ISBN 13: 9780195107685

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

"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."--Phil. Jahrbuch

"I regard it as one of the seminal books in the history of ideas."--Miles Burnyeat, All Souls, Oxford University

"Richard H. Popkin's path-finding work on the history of scepticism has made a deep and lasting impression on the study of early modern philosophy."--The Times Literary Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0195107683
• ISBN 13: 9780195107685
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 440