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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.Review“Jennifer Michael Hecht has forever changed the way I will think about history

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Author

Jennifer Michael Hecht, Jennifer Hecht, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Martha Harmon Pardee

Publisher

HarperOne; HarperSanFrancisco

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060097721

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Fiction, Religion

Rating

4.06 / 5 (2,449 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14