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Doubt: a History : The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson by Jennifer Hecht (2003, Hardcover)
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PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100060097728
ISBN-139780060097721
eBay Product ID (ePID)2364690
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Book TitleDoubt: a History : The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
Number of Pages576 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TopicEpistemology, General, History & Surveys / Modern, United States / General
IllustratorYes
GenrePhilosophy, History
AuthorJennifer Hecht
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.7 in
Item Weight1.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-266061
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"A magisterial book ... Hecht's poetical prose beautifully dramatizes the struggle between belief and denial ... The breadth of this work is stunning." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Hecht gleefully invites readers on a lively stroll through three millennia of clashes between believers and nonbelievers." - Detroit Free Press "A remarkably wide ranging history." - Booklist (starred review) She brings to life an awesome array of figures in philosophy, science, and literature, in a way that is wonderfully engaging." - Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States "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, 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 Decimal121.6
SynopsisIn the compelling book Doubt, a brilliant young writer and historian of ideas shows how the dialectic between faith and doubt, belief and radical questioning, religion on the one hand and philosophy and science on the other has been the driving force in intellectual and religious history. Jennifer Hecht champions doubt and questioning as one of the great and noble, if unheralded, intellectual traditions. This is an account of the world's great intellectual virtuosos, who are also humanity's greatest doubters and disbelievers, and their attempts to reconcile the seeming randomness of the universe with the human need for meaning,This remarkable book touches on a wealth of knowledge. Early Greek philosophy is represented, along with Eastern critical wisdom, Roman Stoicism, Jewish and Christian skeptics, medieval Islam, the rise of science, and the existantialists. Just as belief has its own history featuring people whose unique expressions of faith have forever changed the world, doubt has a vibrant story and tradition with its own saints, martyrs, and sages.Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of award-winning books of philosophy, history, and poetry. Hecht's The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism and Anthropology (Columbia University, 2003), won the Phi Beta Kappa Society's 2004 prestigious Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. Hecht's first poetry book, The Next Ancient World won the Poetry Society of America's 2002 Norma Farber First Book Award. Her most recent poetry book, Funny, won the University of Wisconsin's 2005 Felix Pollak Poetry Prize, and Publisher's Weekly called it "one of the most original and entertaining books of the year.", 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 NumberBD215.H42 2003
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