Doubt: A History
Subtitle: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
Publisher: HarperOne; HarperSanFrancisco
Published: September 7, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780060097950
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.
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.