- Hardcover: 576 pages
- Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco (Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060097728
- ISBN-13: 978-0060097721
- Product Dimensions: 23.7 x 16.1 x 4.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,461,484 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A remarkably wide ranging history."--Booklist (starred review)
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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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Essential reading,
By Raj "Open and not shut" (Spain) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Doubt: A History (Paperback)
Possibly the best and most balanced review of the need for doubt rather than certainty in discovering truth, morality and tolerance.
Whether you have religious or other spiritual convictions or tend to agnosticism or even atheism, this book will open up your thinking without insulting your intelligence or shouting you down.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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What it says on the cover,
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This review is from: Doubt: A History (Paperback)
Excellent history of doubt, and more importantly doubters.
Did feel it assumed readers would know nothing of the geography of the "old world". Came away knowing more, but wanting to know even more.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting intro to the history of scepticism,
By Jezza (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Doubt: A History (Paperback)
I particularly enjoyed the way it covered eastern philosophies, which I had always thought of as religious. The early chapters on Jewish scepticism were very interesting too. Personally I would have liked more on the persecution of sceptics and freethinkers by the church - she seems to think we just know this -- but this is a quibble really.Can't help but mention also that the cover photo makes her look absolutely gorgeous!
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