An edition of Doubt (2003)

Doubt

a history : the great doubters and their legacy of innovation, from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson

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An edition of Doubt (2003)

Doubt

a history : the great doubters and their legacy of innovation, from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson

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In this sweeping history, Jennifer Michael Hecht celebrates doubt as an engine of creativity and as an alternative to the political and intellectual dangers of certainty -- 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.

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English
Pages
551

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Table of Contents

Doubt is no shadow : a quiz and a guide to the question
Whatever happened to Zeus and Hera?, 600 BCE-1 CE : Greek doubt
Smacking the temple, 600 BCE-1 CE : doubt and the ancient Jews
What the Buddha saw, 600 BCE-1 CE: ancient doubt in Asia
When in Rome in doubt, 50 BCE-1 CE : empire of reason
Christian doubt, Zen, Elisha, and Hypatia, 1-800 CE : late-classical mix
Medieval doubt loops-the-loop, 800-1400 : Muslims to Jews to Christians
The printing press and the Age of Martyrs, 1400-1600 : Renaissance and inquisition
Sunspots and White House doubters, 1600-1800 : revolutions in the authority of reason
Doubt's bid for a better work, 1800-1900 : freethinking in the age of science and reform
Principles of uncertainty, 1900- : the new cosmopolitan
The joy of doubt : ethics, logic, mood.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [521]-528) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
121/.5/09
Library of Congress
BD215 .H42 2003, BD215.H42 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 551 p. :
Number of pages
551

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3317365M
Internet Archive
doubthistorygrea00hech
ISBN 10
0060097728
LCCN
2004266061
OCLC/WorldCat
53280130, 56793920
Library Thing
12217
Goodreads
584669

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