Everything connects : : in conference with Richard H. Popkin : essays in his honor / / edited by James E. Force and David S. Katz.

Richard H. Popkin has already been celebrated in two Festschriften as one of the century's greatest historians of philosophy. This latest book, whose editors were among those who prepared the first two volumes, centers on Popkin's crucial role in bringing together scholars from around the...

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Superior document:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 91
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 1999.
Year of Publication:1999
Language:English
Series:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 91.
Physical Description:1 online resource (455 pages) :; portrait.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / James E. Force and David S. Katz
  • 1. Stiernhielm Pythagorizans and the Unveiling of Isis / Susanna Akerman
  • 2. Unmasking the Truth: The Theme of Imposture in Early Modern European Culture, 1660-1730 / Silvia Berti
  • 3. Pere Richard Simon and English Biblical Criticism, 1680-1700 / Justin A.I. Champion
  • 4. The Slums of Cosmopolis: A Renaissance in the History of Philosophy? / Brian P. Copenhaver
  • 5. John Locke and Francis Mercury van Helmont / Allison P. Coudert
  • 6. \'Children of the Resurrection\' and \'Children of the Dust\': Confronting Mortality and Immortality with Newton and Hume / James E. Force
  • 7. The Battle for \'True\' Jewish Christianity: Peter Allix's Polemics Against the Unitarians and Millenarians / Matt Goldish
  • 8. More, Millenarianism, and the Ma'aseh Merkavah / Sarah Hutton
  • 9. Lying Wonders and Juggling Tricks: Religion, Nature, and Imposture in Early Modern England / Rob Iliffe
  • 10. An Alternative Path to Modernity: The Sephardi Jews of Amsterdam in Early Modern Times / Yosef Kaplan
  • 11. La Querelle du Paganisme / Jacqueline Lagrée
  • 12. Bayle's Academic Scepticism / José R. Maia Neto
  • 13. Popkin, Scepticism, and the History of Modern Philosophy / G.A.J. Rogers
  • 14. Religion, Philosophy, and Science: John Locke and Limborch's Circle in Amsterdam / Luisa Simonutti
  • 15. Spinoza on Theocracy and Democracy / Theo Verbeek
  • 16. Unnatural Empire: George Buchanan, Anti-Imperialism, and the 16th-Century Syphilis Pandemic / Arthur H. Williamson
  • 17. \'This Due Degree of Blindness\': Boyle, Hume, and the Limits of Reason / Jan Wojcik.