Autor: R. H. Popkin

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 abbe Henri Gregoire, …

MURIEL MCCARTHY This volume originated from a seminar organised by Richard H. Popkin in Marsh’s Library on July 7-8, 1994. It was one of the most stimulating events held in the Library in recent …

‘the oldest biography of Spinoza’, La Vie de Mr. Spinosa, which in the manuscript copies is often followed by L’Esprit de M. Spinosa. Margaret Jacob, in her Radical Enlightenment, contended that the …

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 …

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 …

The earliest scientific studies of Jewish messianism were conducted by the scholars of the Wissenschaft des Judentums school, particularly Heinrich Graetz, the first great Jewish historian of the …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

In the early 1980s the late Charles B. Schmitt and I discussed the fact that so much new research and new interpretations were taking place concerning various areas of modem skepticism that we, as …