The Skeptical Tradition Around 1800
Download and Read The Skeptical Tradition Around 1800 full books in PDF, ePUB, and Kindle. Read online free The Skeptical Tradition Around 1800 ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
The Skeptical Tradition Around 1800
Author | : J. van der Zande |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 655 |
Release | : 2013-03-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9401734658 |
Download The Skeptical Tradition Around 1800 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 pioneers, ought to organize a conference where these new findings and outlooks could be presented and discussed. Charles and I had both visited the great library at Wolfenbiittel, and were most happy when the Herzog August Bibliothek agreed to host the first conference on the history of skepticism, in 1984 (published as Skepticism from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, ed. R. H. Popkin and Charles B. Schmitt [Wiesbaden, 1987, Wolfenbiitteler For schungen, vol. 35]) Charles and I projected a series of later conferences, the first of which would deal with skepticism and irreligion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Unfortunately, however, Charles died suddenly in 1986, while lecturing in Padua. Subsequent to his death Constance Blackwell, his companion of many years, established the Foundation for Intellectual History to support research and publica tion on topics in the history of ideas that continued Schmitt's interests. One of the first ventures was to arrange and fund the already planned conference on skepticism and irreligion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. After many difficulties and problems, the conference was sponsored and funded by the Foundation for Intel lectual History, one of its first public activities. It was held at the lovely facilities of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Wassenaar in 1990.
The Skeptical Tradition Around 1800 Related Books
Pages: 655
Pages: 492
Pages: 392
Pages: 299
Pages: 459