Häftad, Engelska, 1993
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Rebecca Goldstein – författare
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- Häftad, Engelska, 1994
352 kr
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- E-bokEngelska, 2010
103 kr
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After Cass Seltzer’s book becomes a surprise best seller, he’s dubbed “the atheist with a soul” and becomes a celebrity. He wins over the stunning Lucinda Mandelbaum, “the goddess of game theory,” and loses himself in a spiritually expansive infatuation. A former girlfriend appears: an anthropologist who invites him to join in her quest for immortality through biochemistry. And he is haunted by reminders of the two people who ignited his passion to understand religion: his mentor and professor—a renowned literary scholar with a suspicious obsession with messianism—and an angelic six-year-old mathematical genius who is heir to the leadership of a Hasidic sect. Each encounter reinforces Cass’s theory that the religious impulse spills over into life at large. 36 Arguments for the Existence of God plunges into the great debate of our day: the clash between faith and reason. World events are being shaped by fervent believers at home and abroad, while a new atheism is asserting itself in the public sphere. On purely intellectual grounds the skeptics would seem to have everything on their side. Yet people refuse to accept their seemingly irrefutable arguments and continue to embrace faith in God as their source of meaning, purpose, and comfort. Through the enchantment of fiction, award-winning novelist and MacArthur Fellow Rebecca Newberger Goldstein shows that the tension between religion and doubt cannot be understood through rational argument alone. It also must be explored from the point of view of individual people caught in the raptures and torments of religious experience in all their variety. Using her gifts in fiction and philosophy, Goldstein has produced a true crossover novel, complete with a nail-biting debate (“Resolved: God Exists”) and a stand-alone appendix with the thirty-six arguments (and responses) that propelled Seltzer to stardom.From the Hardcover edition. - Häftad, Engelska, 2011
320 kr
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2015
242 kr
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- E-bokEngelska, 2014
206 kr
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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 hidden role in today’s debates on religion, morality, politics, and science. At the origin of Western philosophy stands Plato, who got about as much wrong as one would expect from a thinker who lived 2,400 years ago. But Plato’s role in shaping philosophy was pivotal. On her way to considering the place of philosophy in our ongoing intellectual life, Goldstein tells a new story of its origin, re-envisioning the extraordinary culture that produced the man who produced philosophy. But it is primarily the fate of philosophy that concerns her. Is the discipline no more than a way of biding our time until the scientists arrive on the scene? Have they already arrived? Does philosophy itself ever make progress? And if it does, why is so ancient a figure as Plato of any continuing relevance? Plato at the Googleplex is Goldstein’s startling investigation of these conundra. She interweaves her narrative with Plato’s own choice for bringing ideas to life—the dialogue. Imagine that Plato came to life in the twenty-first century and embarked on a multicity speaking tour. How would he handle the host of a cable news program who denies there can be morality without religion? How would he mediate a debate between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a tiger mom on how to raise the perfect child? How would he answer a neuroscientist who, about to scan Plato’s brain, argues that science has definitively answered the questions of free will and moral agency? What would Plato make of Google, and of the idea that knowledge can be crowd-sourced rather than reasoned out by experts? With a philosopher’s depth and a novelist’s imagination and wit, Goldstein probes the deepest issues confronting us by allowing us to eavesdrop on Plato as he takes on the modern world.(With black-and-white photographs throughout.)
- E-bokEngelska, 2000
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A thought provoking novel about the connection between the passion for knowledge and the desire to love from award–winning author Rebecca Goldstein.A New York Times Notable BookA grand gothic novel of the outer reaches of passion—of the body and of the mind—Properties of Light is a mesmerizing tale of consuming love and murderous professional envy entangled within the very heart of a physics problem so huge and perplexing it thwarted even Einstein: the nature of light.Caught in the entanglements of erotic and intellectual desire are three physicists: Samuel Mallach is a brilliant theoretician unhinged by the professional glory he feels has been stolen from him; Dana is his intriguing and gifted daughter, whose desperate devotion to her father contributes to the tragic undoing of Justin Childs, her lover and her father''s protégé. All three are working together to solve some of the deepest and most controversial problems in quantum mechanics, problems that challenge our understanding of the "real world" and of the nature of time. Their shared obsession is full of terrible risk, holding out possibilities for heartbreak as well as for ecstasy.The true subject of Properties of Light is the ecstatic response to reality, perhaps the only response that can embrace the erotic and the poetic, the scientific and the spiritual. Written with, and about, a rare form of passion, this incandescent novel is fiction at its most daring and utterly original."A passionate love story rendered with dazzling intelligence." —Award–winning author Maureen Howard"Daring . . . startling . . . breathtakingly surprising." —New York - Häftad, Engelska, 2001
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2009
195 kr
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- E-bokEngelska, 2009
209 kr
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Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesIn 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 systems in the history of Western philosophy, so ahead of its time that scientists today, from string theorists to neurobiologists, count themselves among Spinoza’s progeny.In Betraying Spinoza, Rebecca Goldstein sets out to rediscover the flesh-and-blood man often hidden beneath the veneer of rigorous rationality, and to crack the mystery of the breach between the philosopher and his Jewish past. Goldstein argues that the trauma of the Inquisition’ s persecution of its forced Jewish converts plays itself out in Spinoza’s philosophy. The excommunicated Spinoza, no less than his excommunicators, was responding to Europe’ s first experiment with racial anti-Semitism.Here is a Spinoza both hauntingly emblematic and deeply human, both heretic and hero—a surprisingly contemporary figure ripe for our own uncertain age.From the Hardcover edition. - E-bokSvenska, 2019
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Ateisten, rationalisten och filosofins prins. Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), en av de första och främsta upplysningstänkarna, har gått under många namn. Spinoza skapade ett av historiens mest ambitiösa filosofiska projekt och har inspirerat såväl Friedrich Hegel som Ludwig Wittgenstein, Louis Althusser och Gilles Deleuze.
Spinoza bannlystes år 1656 från Amsterdams judiska samfund, och var vid 23 års ålder en av sin tids mest kända judiska kättare. Detta kom att påverka Spinozas syn på människans plats i den materiella verkligheten på flera sätt. I Spinoza och jag undersöker filosofen Rebecca Goldstein människan bakom teorierna och rationaliteten. Hon väver skickligt ihop sina egna erfarenheter från uppväxten i en judiskortodox familj i efterdyningarna av Förintelsen med Spinozas personliga historia. Vi får här lära känna en mänsklig Baruch, på samma gång en hjälte och en kättare. Det är en Spinoza som framstår förvånansvärt aktuell i vår egen omvälvande tid.
Rebecca Goldstein är amerikansk professor i filosofi.
- Inbunden, Svenska, 2005
259 kr
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En introduktion till Gödels liv och tänkande, den man som för alltid förändrade matematiken. Kurt Gödel betraktas allmänt som den störste logikern sedan Aristoteles. Hans ofullständighetsteorem från 1931 bevisade att det i varje formellt system för aritmetiken finns sanna satser som likväl inte låter sig bevisas. Resultatet blev en omvälvning som spred sig långt bortom matematiken och fortsätter att utmana våra föreställningar om medvetandets natur. Rebecca Goldstein, prisbelönt författare och filosof, förklarar den filosofiska vision som var inspirationen bakom Gödels matematik. Spännande populärvetenskap om en av matematikhistoriens största genier. Kräver ej specialistkunskaper.
