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  • The Problem of Certainty in English Thought 1630–1690

    by Henry G. van Leeuwen, R.H. Popkin ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The revival of ancient Greek scepticism in the 16th and 17th centuries was of the greatest importance in changing the intellectual climate in which modern science developed, and in developing the attitude that we now call "The scientific outlook". Many streams of thought came together contributing to various facets of this crucial development. One of the most fascinating of these is that of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Essays on the Context, Nature, and Influence of Isaac Newton’s Theology

    by J.E. Force, R.H. Popkin ...
    Series Book 129 - International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
    This collection of essays is the fruit of about fifteen years of discussion and research by James Force and me. As I look back on it, our interest and concern with Newton's theological ideas began in 1975 at Washington University in St. Louis. James Force was a graduate student in philosophy and I was a professor there. For a few years before, I had been doing research and writing on ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Books of Nature and Scripture

    Recent Essays on Natural Philosophy, Theology and Biblical Criticism in the Netherlands of Spinoza’s Time and the British Isles of Newton’s Time

    Edited by J.E. Force, R.H. Popkin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Dick Popkin and James Force have attended a number of recent conferences where it was apparent that much new and important research was being done in the fields of interpreting Newton's and Spinoza's contributions as biblical scholars and of the relationship between their biblical scholarship and other aspects of their particular philosophies.This collection represents the best current research in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Newton and Religion

    Context, Nature, and Influence

    Edited by J.E. Force, R.H. Popkin ...
    Series Book 161 - International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
    Over the past twenty-five years - since the very large collection of Newton's papers became available and began to be seriously examined - the beginnings of a new picture of Newton has emerged. This volume of essays builds upon the foundation of its authors in their previous works and extends and elaborates the emerging picture of the `new' Newton, the great synthesizer of science and religion as ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture

    Volume III: The Millenarian Turn: Millenarian Contexts of Science, Politics and Everyday Anglo-American Life in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

    Edited by J.E. Force, R.H. Popkin ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Thanks to the work of legions of scholars, the millenarian expectations within large segments of the population in Cromwellian England have been carefully examined. The widespread belief that England, with its messianic leader 1 Cromwell, heralded the millennium is well known. Less well examined, perhaps, has been the cultural conceptions of the role of millenarian and messianic ideas in the "long ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Scepticism in the Enlightenment

    Edited by R.H. Popkin, Ezequiel de Olaso, Giorgio Tonelli ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Starting with Richard Popkin's essay of 1963, `Scepticism in the Enlightenment', a new investigation into philosophical scepticism of the period was launched. The late Giorgio Tonelli and the late Ezequiel de Olaso examined in great detail the kinds of scepticism developed during the Enlightenment, and the kind of answer to scepticism that was developed by Leibniz. Their original researches and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Scepticism in the History of Philosophy

    A Pan-American Dialogue

    Edited by R.H. Popkin ...
    Series Book 145 - International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
    Scepticism in the History of Philosophy is a dialogue between leading Latin American and North American scholars concerned with the history of scepticism from ancient times to present day philosophy. The volume contains interesting discussions by a wide range of philosophers and historians of philosophy.The book should be of great interest to many philosophers who are interested in scepticism. It ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Abbé Grégoire and his World

    Edited by R.H. Popkin ...
    Series Book 169 - International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
    A distinguished group of international scholars from the disciplines of history, philosophy, literature and art history offer a reconsideration of the ideas and the impact of the abbé Henri Grégoire, one of the most important figures of the French Revolution and a contributor to the campaigns for Jewish emancipation, rights for blacks, the reform of the Catholic Church and many other causes ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Jewish Christians and Christian Jews

    From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

    Edited by R.H. Popkin, G.M. Weiner ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The appearance of religious toleration combined with the intensification of the search for theological truth led to a unique phenomenon in early modern Europe: Jewish Christians and Christian Jews. These essays will demonstrate that the cross-fertilization of these two religions, which for so long had a tradition of hostility towards each other, not only affected developments within the two groups ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Shapes of Knowledge from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

    Edited by D.R. Kelley, R.H. Popkin ...
    Series Book 124 - International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
    The original idea for a conference on the "shapes of knowledge" dates back over ten years to conversations with the late Charles Schmitt of the Warburg Institute. What happened to the classifications of the sciences between the time of the medieval Studium and that of the French Encyclopedie is a complex and highly abstract question; but posing it is an effective way of mapping and evaluating long ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture Volume IV

    Continental Millenarians: Protestants, Catholics, Heretics

    Edited by John Christian Laursen, R.H. Popkin ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Any number of misconceptions about millenarians and messianism in the early modern period will be laid to rest by a reading of this volume. It is too often thought that millenarianism was largely an English phenomenon. One of the reasons for bringing these studies together is to show, as Martin Mulsow puts it, that we can understand this European-wide movement as a "millenarian international" in ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Leibniz, Mysticism and Religion

    Edited by A.P. Coudert, R.H. Popkin, G.M. Weiner ...
    Series Book 158 - International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
    Some scholars in the history of ideas have had a growing interest in examining Leibniz's many discussions ofvarious aspects of religion, Christian, Jewish and far eastern. Leibniz, with his voracious interest and concern for so many aspects of human intellectual and spiritual life, read a wide variety of books on the various religions of mankind. He also was in personal contact with many of those ... Read more

    $143.09 USD