Doubt: A History

Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson ( ISBN 0060097957) is a book by Jennifer Michael Hecht that appeared in 2003.

Doubt: A History
Author Jennifer Michael Hecht
Country United States
Language English
Subject History, Epistemology, History of Religion
Genre Non-Fiction
Publisher Harper Collins
Publication date
 2003
Media type Hardcover, paperback
ISBN 978-0060097950


The title may appear misleading, as Hecht concentrates mainly (though not exclusively) on the history of religious doubt. In a podcast interview Hecht says it was the publishers who didn't want it to be called 'A History of Atheism'. "I set out to write 'A History of Atheism' ... and for a large part that's what I did".[1]

The work provides a detailed history of religious doubt in both the West and the East, reaching back to the earliest recorded evidence of disbelief, the materialist, atheist philosophy of the Carvaka, which flourished in India ca. 600 BCE. Her study leads up to examples from the beginning of the 21st century.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Interview with Jennifer Hecht, Point of Inquiry, 28 November 2008
  2. ↑ "DOUBT: A History". Publisher's Weekly. Publisher's Weekly. Retrieved 7 September 2017.


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