The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780195107685)

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.

Author: Richard H. Popkin
ISBN-10: 0195107683
ISBN-13: 9780195107685
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 03/20/2003
Pages: 440
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.32w x 0.84d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2004 pg. 922