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The Legacies of Richard Popkin
eBook - International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
ISBN/EAN: 9781402084744
Umbreit-Nr.: 1600503
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 302 S., 3.15 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 05.11.2008
Auflage: 1/2008
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Format: PDF
DRM: Digitales Wasserzeichen
- Zusatztext
- <P>Richard H. Popkin (1923-2005) transformed the study of the history of philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century. His<EM>History of Scepticism</EM> and his many other publications demonstrated the centrality of the problem of skepticism in the development of modern thought, the intimate connections between philosophy and religion, and the importance of contacts between Jewish and Christian thinkers. In this volume, scholars from around the world assess Popkins contributions to the many fields in which he was interested.<EM>The Legacies of Richard Popkin</EM>provides a broad overview of Popkins work and demonstrates the connections between the many topics he wrote about. A concluding article, by Popkins son Jeremy Popkin, draws on private letters to provide a picture of Popkins life and career in his own words, revealing the richness of the documents now accessible to scholars in the Richard Popkin papers at the William Andrews Clark Library in Los Angeles.</P>
- Kurztext
- <P>In this unique volume, scholars from around the world assess Popkins contributions to the many fields in which he was interested. The volume provides a broad overview of Popkins work and demonstrates the connections between the many topics he wrote about.</P>