Overview
- Gives the broadest overview of Richard Popkin’s intellectual contributions
- Establishes connections between Popkin’s different fields of interest
- Demonstrates richness of the stimulation he provided to research in a variety of fields
- Contributions by top scholars in several disciplines
- Unique insight into Popkin’s life, drawn from his personal letters
Part of the book series: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées (ARCH, volume 198)
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Richard H. Popkin (1923-2005) transformed the study of the history of philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century. His History of Scepticism 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 Popkin’s contributions to the many fields in which he was interested. The Legacies of Richard Popkin provides a broad overview of Popkin’s work and demonstrates the connections between the many topics he wrote about. A concluding article, by Popkin’s son Jeremy Popkin, draws on private letters to provide a picture of Popkin’s 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.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Richard H. Popkin and the History of Philosophy
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Religion and Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century
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Back Matter
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Legacies of Richard Popkin
Editors: Jeremy D. Popkin
Series Title: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8474-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8473-7Published: 18 November 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7891-9Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8474-4Published: 05 November 2008
Series ISSN: 0066-6610
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0307
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 301
Topics: History of Philosophy