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36 Arguments for the Existence of God - A Work of Fiction

Inglese · Tascabile

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Zusatztext 69411630 Informationen zum Autor Rebecca Newberger Goldstein  received her doctorate in philosophy from Princeton University. Her award-winning books include the novels  The Mind-Body Problem,   Properties of Light, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction  and nonfiction studies of Kurt Gödel and Baruch Spinoza. Her most recent work,  Plato at the Googleplex , was released from Pantheon in March of 2014. She has received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, has been designated a Humanist of the Year and a Freethought Heroine, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She lives in Massachusetts. Rebecca Goldstein is represented by Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau (www.prhspeakers.com). Klappentext From the author of The Mind-Body Problem: a witty and intoxicating novel of ideas that plunges into the great debate between faith and reason. At the center is Cass Seltzer! a professor of psychology whose book! The Varieties of Religious Illusion! has become a surprise best seller. Dubbed "the atheist with a soul!" he wins over the stunning Lucinda Mandelbaum-"the goddess of game theory." But he is haunted by reminders of two people who ignited his passion to understand religion: his teacher Jonas Elijah Klapper! a renowned literary scholar with a suspicious obsession with messianism! and an angelic six-year-old mathematical genius! heir to the leadership of an exotic Hasidic sect. Hilarious! heartbreaking! and intellectually captivating! 36 Arguments explores the rapture and torments of religious experience in all its variety. Zusammenfassung From the author of The Mind-Body Problem : a witty and intoxicating novel of ideas that plunges into the great debate between faith and reason.   At the center is Cass Seltzer! a professor of psychology whose book! The Varieties of Religious Illusion ! has become a surprise best seller. Dubbed “the atheist with a soul!” he wins over the stunning Lucinda Mandelbaum—“the goddess of game theory.” But he is haunted by reminders of two people who ignited his passion to understand religion: his teacher Jonas Elijah Klapper! a renowned literary scholar with a suspicious obsession with messianism! and an angelic six-year-old mathematical genius! heir to the leadership of an exotic Hasidic sect.   Hilarious! heartbreaking! and intellectually captivating! 36 Arguments explores the rapture and torments of religious experience in all its variety. ...

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Autori Rebecca Goldstein
Editore Vintage USA
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Tascabile
Pubblicazione 01.02.2011
 
EAN 9780307456717
ISBN 978-0-307-45671-7
Pagine 528
Dimensioni 135 mm x 207 mm x 25 mm
Serie Vintage Contemporaries
Vintage Contemporaries
Categoria Narrativa > Romanzi

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