Doubt, A History. The Great Doubters And Their Legacy Of Innovation From Socrates And Jesus To Thomas Jefferson And Emily Dickinson

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Harper
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: First Edition

Description: 551 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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 worlds greatest ‘intellectual virtuosos, who are also humanitys greatest doubters and disbelievers, from the ancient Greek philosophers, Jesus, and the Eastern religions, to modern secular equivalents Marx, Freud and Darwinand 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.

ISBN: 9780060097721