The Third Force in Seventeenth-Century Thought

Erscheinungsjahr 1991
ISBN: 978-90-04-09324-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 821 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

This volume consists of more than twenty articles by Richard H. Popkin on the history of modern philosophy, written between 1980 and 1990, including several not published before this.
The topics covered in these studies range over religious and theological influences in modern philosophy, further material in the history of scepticism dealing with Hobbes, Henry More and Pascal, as well as Moritz Schlick, new findings about Spinoza, pre-Adamism, Ralph Cudworth, Isaac Newton's religious views, 18th century racism, and the liberalism of Condorcet.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Popkin, Richard H

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Richard H. Popkin is presently Professor Emeritus, Washington University, St. Louis and Adjunct Professor History and Philosophy at UCLA. Recent publications:Isaac La Peyrère, his Life, his Work, his Influence (Brill, 1987); Millenarianism and Thought 1650-1800, (Brill, ed. 1988), and Menasseh ben Israel and his World (Brill, ed. with Y. Kaplan and H. Mechoulan, 1989).