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36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction by Rebecca Goldstein
Category: Fiction
Psychologist Cass Seltzer's book, The Variety of Religious Illusion, has become a surprise runaway bestseller. Dubbed 'the atheist with a soul', Cass's sudden celebrity has upended his life and brought back the ghosts of his past. Over the course of one week, Cass's theories about our need to keep faith ...Show more
36 Arguments for the Existence of God : A work of fiction by Rebecca Goldstein
Category: Fiction
A big, brash, clever novel, alternately hilarious, heartbreaking and captivating. It plunges into the great debate of our day: the clash between faith and reason.
Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity by Rebecca Goldstein
Category: Judaica | Series: Jewish Encounters
In 1656, Amsterdam's Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty-three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious s ...Show more
Great Dialogues of Plato : Complete Texts of the Republic, the Apology, Crito Phaedo, Ion, Meno, Symposium by Rebecca Newberger (AFT) Matthew S. (INT); Goldstein W. H. D. (TRN); Santirocco Plato; Rouse
Category: Reference
The Republic and other great dialogues by the immortal Greek philosopher Plato are masterpieces that form part of the most important single body of writing in the history of philosophy. Beauty, love, immortality, knowledge, and justice are discussed in these dialogues, which magnificently express the gl ...Show more
Plato at the Googleplex - Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Imagine that Plato came to life in the twenty-first century and embarked on a multi-city speaking tour. How would he mediate a debate between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a 'tiger mum' on how to raise the perfect child? How would he handle the host of a right-wing news program who denies there can be mo ...Show more
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Category: Culture
Is philosophy obsolete? Are the ancient questions still relevant in the age of cosmology and neuroscience, not to mention crowd-sourcing and cable news? The acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hi ...Show more
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Category: Culture
"Imagine that Plato came to life in the twenty-first century and embarked on a multi-city speaking tour. How would he mediate a debate between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a 'tiger mum' on how to raise the perfect child? How would he handle the host of a right-wing news program who denies there can be m ...Show more
The Mind-body Problem : A Novel by Rebecca Goldstein
Category: Fiction | Series: Contemporary American Fiction
Winslow Homer and the Clark by Marc Simpson; Richard Rand (Conducted by); Dan Cohen (Conducted by); James A. Ganz (Conducted by); Rebecca Goldstein (Conducted by); Alexis Goodin (Conducted by); Sarah Hammond (Conducted by); Susannah Maurer (Conducted by); Kathleen M. Morris (Conducted by); James Baetjer Pilgrim (Conducted by)
Category: Art and Design | Series: Clark Art Institute Series (YUP) Ser.
Beautifully illustrated and produced, this book showcases one of the world's largest collections of works by Winslow Homer.
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