Sceptics, millenarians, and Jews / / edited by David S. Katz and Jonathan I. Israel.

One of the main consequences of recent work in early modern intellectual and religious history has been a discrediting of the notion of a sudden and dramatic transition to the spiritual world of the Enlightenment. Scholars are increasingly examining the underlying spiritual trends and tendencies whi...

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Superior document:Brill's studies in intellectual history, volume 17
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1990.
Year of Publication:1990
Language:English
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 17.
Physical Description:1 online resource (302 pages)
Notes:Festschrift in honor of Richard H. Popkin.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • SCEPTICISM AND THE PROBLEM OF THE CRITERION / Avrum Stroll
  • GIBBON AND THE IDOL FO: CHINESE AND CHRISTIAN HISTORY IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT / J.G.A. Pocock
  • DESCARTES - AN ENTHUSIAST MALGRÉ LUI? / Michael Heyd
  • REFLECTIONS ON THE OTHER-MINDS PROBLEM: DESCARTES AND OTHERS / Alan Gabbey
  • DESCARTES AND THE METHOD OF ANNIHILATION / Amos Funkenstein
  • DUTCH SEPHARDI JEWRY, MILLENARIAN POLITICS, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR BRAZIL (1640-1654) / Jonathan I. Israel
  • WHY WAS BARUCH DE SPINOZA EXCOMMUNICATED? / Asa Kasher and Shlomo Biderman
  • QUEEN CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN AND MESSIANIC THOUGHT / Susanna Âkerman
  • A PHILO-SEMITIC MILLENARIAN ON THE RECONCILIATION OF JEWS AND CHRISTIANS: HENRY JESSEY AND HIS \' T H E GLORY AND SALVATION OF JEHUDAH AND ISRAEL\' (1650) / Ernestine G.E. Van Der Wall
  • AU DOSSIER DU SABBATAISME: UNE RELATION ITALIENNE DU XVIIème SIÈCLE / Henry Méchoulan
  • \'KARAITES\' IN EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMSTERDAM / Yosef Kaplan
  • THE HUTCHINSONIANS AND HEBRAIC FUNDAMENTALISM IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
  • PRIESTLEY, THE JEWS AND THE MILLENNIUM / J. Van Den Berg
  • SOCIAL THEORY AND GOTHIC HORROR IN THE WRITINGS OF SIMON-NICOLAS-HENRI LINGUET / Jeremy D Popkin
  • INDEX.