Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson by Jennifer Michael Hecht | Banana Books
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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
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.
Book Details
Format
Paperback
ISBN-10
0060097957
ISBN-13
9780060097950
Publication Date
Sep 2004
Item Weight
0.65 pounds
Length
9.02 inch
Width
5.98 inch
Height
1.46 inch
First Sentence
When we look for doubt among the ancients, in the West we are going to find the most lively cases in the Hellenistic period-the few hundred years between the dominance of Classical Greece and that of Classical Rome.
