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ISBN
9780060097721
Book Title
Doubt: a History : The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
Publisher
HarperCollins
Item Length
9 in
Publication Year
2003
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.7 in
Author
Jennifer Hecht
Genre
Religion, Philosophy, History
Topic
Epistemology, General, Religion, Politics & State, United States / General
Item Weight
31.5 Oz
Item Width
6 in
Number of Pages
576 Pages

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060097728
ISBN-13
9780060097721
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2364690

Product Key Features

Book Title
Doubt: a History : The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Epistemology, General, Religion, Politics & State, United States / General
Publication Year
2003
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, Philosophy, History
Author
Jennifer Hecht
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.7 in
Item Weight
31.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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Trade
LCCN
2004-266061
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Jennifer Michael Hecht has forever changed the way I will think about history -- religious or otherwise., "A remarkably wide ranging history." -- Booklist (starred review) "Hecht gleefully invites readers on a lively stroll through three millennia of clashes between believers and nonbelievers." -- Detroit Free Press "Hecht aims to give doubt its due in her lively and endlessly provocative new book." -- Christian Century "Hecht is right that doubt's story deserves to be told ... [and] she tells it in just the right spirit." -- Alan Wolfe, New Republic "Jennifer Michael Hecht has forever changed the way I will think about history -- religious or otherwise." -- Krista Tippett, Speaking of Faith -- Minnesota Public Radio, Hecht is right that doubt's story deserves to be told ... [and] she tells it in just the right spirit., Hecht gleefully invites readers on a lively stroll through three millennia of clashes between believers and nonbelievers.
Dewey Decimal
121.6
Synopsis
In the tradition of grand sweeping histories such as From Dawn To Decadence, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and A History of God, Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions that distinguish the Western mind especially-from Socrates to Galileo and Darwin to Wittgenstein and Hawking. This is an account of the world's greatest 'intellectual virtuosos,' who are also humanity's greatest doubters and disbelievers, from the ancient Greek philosophers, Jesus, and the Eastern religions, to modern secular equivalents Marx, Freud and Darwin--and their attempts to reconcile the seeming meaninglessness of the universe with the human need for meaning, This remarkable book ranges from the early Greeks, Hebrew figures such as Job and Ecclesiastes, Eastern critical wisdom, Roman stoicism, Jesus as a man of doubt, Gnosticism and Christian mystics, medieval Islamic, Jewish and Christian skeptics, secularism, the rise of science, modern and contemporary critical thinkers such as Schopenhauer, Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, the existentialists., In the tradition of grand sweeping histories such as From Dawn To Decadence, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and A History of God, Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions that distinguish the Western mind especially-from Socrates to Galileo and Darwin to Wittgenstein and Hawking. This is an account of the world's greatest 'intellectual virtuosos, ' who are also humanity's greatest doubters and disbelievers, from the ancient Greek philosophers, Jesus, and the Eastern religions, to modern secular equivalents Marx, Freud and Darwin--and their attempts to reconcile the seeming meaninglessness of the universe with the human need for meaning, This remarkable book ranges from the early Greeks, Hebrew figures such as Job and Ecclesiastes, Eastern critical wisdom, Roman stoicism, Jesus as a man of doubt, Gnosticism and Christian mystics, medieval Islamic, Jewish and Christian skeptics, secularism, the rise of science, modern and contemporary critical thinkers such as Schopenhauer, Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, the existentialists., In the tradition of grand sweeping histories such as From Dawn To Decadence , The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , and A History of God , Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions that distinguish the Western mind especially-from Socrates to Galileo and Darwin to Wittgenstein and Hawking. This is an account of the world's greatest 'intellectual virtuosos, ' who are also humanity's greatest doubters and disbelievers, from the ancient Greek philosophers, Jesus, and the Eastern religions, to modern secular equivalents Marx, Freud and Darwin--and their attempts to reconcile the seeming meaninglessness of the universe with the human need for meaning, This remarkable book ranges from the early Greeks, Hebrew figures such as Job and Ecclesiastes, Eastern critical wisdom, Roman stoicism, Jesus as a man of doubt, Gnosticism and Christian mystics, medieval Islamic, Jewish and Christian skeptics, secularism, the rise of science, modern and contemporary critical thinkers such as Schopenhauer, Darwin, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, the existentialists.
LC Classification Number
BD215.H42 2003

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