Great Freethinkers: Selected Quotations by Famous Skeptics and Nonconformists - Softcover

Sanford, James C.

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9780974704227: Great Freethinkers: Selected Quotations by Famous Skeptics and Nonconformists

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ISBN 10: 0974704229 ISBN 13: 9780974704227

Publisher: Metacomet Books, 2005

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Grouped into categories that range from religion and psychology to sex and politics, the 1,000 quotations by the world's great iconoclasts and skeptics collected in this volume challenge conventional notions of god, country, science, art, society, and culture. In eclectic harmony, the words of cynics Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, and H. L. Mencken counterbalance those of idealists Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert Einstein, and Jane Addams. Utopians Emma Goldman and Che Guevara contrast with anti-utopians George Orwell and Albert Camus. Individualists contend with egalitarians as do deists with atheists in these thought-provoking quotations that have been carefully selected from a broad range of writings and chosen on the basis of their wit, eloquence, novelty, and incisiveness.

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About the Author:

James C. Sanford is an antiquarian book dealer who specializes in the history of science and ideas. He is a former history professor at Mount Holyoke College and a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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