The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
Paperback, 576 pages
English language
Published Sept. 7, 2004 by HarperOne.
"من خلاصه کتاب رو توی بلینکیست گوش کردم"
یک سری از بحث‌ها که خیلی لذت میبرم ازشون اونایی هستند که یه مفهوم خیلی روزمره رو شروع میکنند به کاوییدن مثل نفرت یا صبر یا اراده و یا مثل این کتاب تردید و شک
به نظر کتاب فوق‌العاده‌ای میاد، رفرنس‌های جالبی به تردیدهای مهم تاریخ داره و بحث روی رابطه تردید و دین، تردید و علم
آخر هم مشکلات و عواقب تردید رو کمی باز کرد و یه بحث کوتاهی روی اون داشت.
(Disclaimer: If it was not for the preaching to the choir-effect I probably would give 3 stars). So the book takes you from ancient Greece right to our time, which sounds like fun and also is for the most part. I skimmed parts on Galileo and the more modern doubters (as much as I love Darwin/Huxley there wasn't too much new in it for me) but I had lots of fun with the Greece and Newton/Franklin et al.
In a way I had similar problems with this one as with 'A Modern History of the Mind': It has a lot of name dropping, which is a problem if you tend to even forget the names of your partners. Which is why it took me quite long to finish and I could only do rather small reading sessions. But imho the work pays of in the end.
A good read, but more importantly, a really solid education; Not simply in terms of the history of doubters, but the history of, well, thought. Of philosophy. For someone who didn't quite get the education he might have liked, this book is a great tour through different ways of thinking about the world, freed from the gauze and blur of supernaturalism.
