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- ISBN: 0060097728
- Physical Description: xxi, 551 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York, NY : HarperSanFrancisco, c2003.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Doubt is no shadow: a quiz and a guide to the ... Read More |
| Summary, etc.: | In this sweeping history, Jennifer Michael Hecht ... Read More |
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| Subject: | Belief and doubt > History. |
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| 100 | 1 | . | ‡aHecht, Jennifer Michael, ‡d1965- ‡0(LARL_NWRL_CONSORTIUM)132365 |
| 245 | 1 | 0. | ‡aDoubt : ‡ba history : the great doubters and their legacy of innovation, from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson / ‡cJennifer Michael Hecht. |
| 250 | . | ‡a1st ed. | |
| 260 | . | ‡aNew York, NY : ‡bHarperSanFrancisco, ‡cc2003. | |
| 300 | . | ‡axxi, 551 p. : ‡bill. ; ‡c24 cm. | |
| 504 | . | ‡aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | |
| 520 | . | ‡aIn 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. | |
| 505 | 0 | . | ‡aDoubt 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 in 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. |
| 650 | 0. | ‡aBelief and doubt ‡xHistory. | |
| 901 | . | ‡a52878 ‡bOCLC ‡c52878 ‡tbiblio | |
