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PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100060097957

ISBN-139780060097950

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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

TopicEpistemology, General, United States / General, Religion, Politics & State

Publication Year2004

GenreReligion, Philosophy, History

AuthorJennifer Hecht

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight21.2 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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ReviewsJennifer Michael Hecht has forever changed the way I will think about history -- religious or otherwise., 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 Edition22

Dewey Decimal121.6

SynopsisIn 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