{"product_id":"doubt-a-history-the-great-doubters-and-their-legacy-of-innovation-from-socrates-and-jesus-to-thomas-jefferson-and-emily-dickinson-9780060097950","title":"Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of grand sweeping histories such as \u003cem\u003eFrom Dawn To Decadence\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eA History of God\u003c\/em\u003e, 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, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Hecht\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e HarperOne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 551\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.06w x 1.43d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060097950\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Book of the Year - Winner","brand":"HarperOne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43349284716681,"sku":"9780060097950","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_9b62577d-1014-46eb-814e-07504a1492e8.jpg?v=1739259193","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/doubt-a-history-the-great-doubters-and-their-legacy-of-innovation-from-socrates-and-jesus-to-thomas-jefferson-and-emily-dickinson-9780060097950","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}