Doubt
Subtitle: a history : the great doubters and their legacy of innovation, from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
By: Jennifer Michael Hecht.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco, c2003.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: [San Francisco]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 551
Subjects: Belief and doubt -- History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [521]-528) and index.
Table of contents: title: Doubt is no shadow : a quiz and a guide to the question; title: Whatever happened to Zeus and Hera?, 600 BCE-1 CE : Greek doubt; title: Smacking the temple, 600 BCE-1 CE : doubt and the ancient Jews; title: What the Buddha saw, 600 BCE-1 CE: ancient doubt in Asia; title: When in Rome in doubt, 50 BCE-1 CE : empire of reason; title: Christian doubt, Zen, Elisha, and Hypatia, 1-800 CE : late-classical mix; title: Medieval doubt loops-the-loop, 800-1400 : Muslims to Jews to Christians; title: The printing press and the Age of Martyrs, 1400-1600 : Renaissance and inquisition; title: Sunspots and White House doubters, 1600-1800 : revolutions in the authority of reason; title: Doubt's bid for a better work, 1800-1900 : freethinking in the age of science and reform; title: Principles of uncertainty, 1900- : the new cosmopolitan; title: The joy of doubt : ethics, logic, mood.