Doubt: A History
Subtitle: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Published: October 14, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780060097721
Subjects: World - General; Intellectual History; History - General History; History: World; Social History; History & Surveys - General; History / General; History; General; Belief and doubt
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 dominace of Classical Greece and that of Classical Rome.