Podcast Episodes featuring Jennifer Michael Hecht
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[Unedited] Jennifer Michael Hecht with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett - December 17, 2020 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratings“We are indebted to one another and the debt is a kind of faith — a beautiful, difficult, strange faith. We believe each other into being.” That’s the message the philosopher, poet, and historian, Jennifer Michael Hecht, puts at the center of her unusual writing about suicide. She’s traced how W...
Re-post: Episode 238 — Jennifer Michael Hecht
Otherppl with Brad Listi - June 08, 2018 18:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 448 ratingsA re-posting of this December 29, 2013 conversation between Brad Listi and Jennifer Michael Hecht, author STAY: A HISTORY OF SUICIDE AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST IT. Hecht is a poet, historian, and commentator. Her other books include the bestseller "Doubt: A History," "The Happiness Myth," and "The...
Jennifer Michael Hecht — Suicide, and Hope for Our Future Selves
On Being with Krista Tippett - December 10, 2015 17:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsStay. That’s the message that philosopher, poet, and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht puts at the center of her unusual writing about suicide. She’s traced how the history of Western civilization has, at times, demonized those who commit suicide, and, at times, celebrated it as a moral freedom....
012 - Interview with Jennifer Michael Hecht
Life After God's tracks - November 11, 2015 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 140 ratingsThis week I speak with author and historian of science, Jennifer Michael Hecht. She lives in Brooklyn, blocks from where her great-grandmother Jenny Belinsky lived, and is the author of four books of history and philosophy and three books of poetry, including, Doubt: A History, and Stay: A Histor...
Ep. 54 - Jennifer Michael Hecht, Author of Doubt: A History
Friendly Atheist Podcast - May 10, 2015 20:57 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratingsJennifer Michael Hecht is a historian, philosopher, and author of several bestselling books including Doubt: A History. Her latest book is called Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It. At the American Atheists 2015 convention in Memphis, Tennessee, Jessica spoke with Jennife...
Episode 238 — Jennifer Michael Hecht
Otherppl with Brad Listi - December 29, 2013 09:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 448 ratings[Note: I've decided to make this episode available without subscription so that people can listen to it and share it as easily as possible. -BL] Jennifer Michael Hecht is the guest. Her new book is called Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It. It is available now from Yale U...
PZ Myers, Jennifer Michael Hecht, and Chris Mooney - New Atheism or Accommodation?
Point of Inquiry - October 11, 2010 05:52 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 758 ratingsRecently at the 30th anniversary conference of the Council for Secular Humanism in Los Angeles, leading science blogger PZ Myers and Point of Inquiry host Chris Mooney appeared together on a panel to discuss the questions, "How should secular humanists respond to science and religion? If we cham...
Rationally Speaking #14 - Jennifer Michael Hecht on Science, Religion, Happiness, and Other Myths
Rationally Speaking Podcast - August 01, 2010 17:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 464 ratingsAuthor, science historian, philosopher, and poet Jennifer Michael Hecht discusses her views on science, religion, and skepticism. She talks about her book "The Happiness Myth", showing how the very concept of happiness has changed dramatically both in time and across cultures, to the point that ...
Jennifer Michael Hecht — A History of Doubt
On Being with Krista Tippett - January 08, 2009 17:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsPoet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht says that as a scholar she always noticed the “shadow history” of doubt out of the corner of her eye. She shows how non-belief, skepticism, and doubt have paralleled and at times shaped the world’s great religious and secular belief systems. She suggest...
Unedited Interview with Jennifer Michael Hecht
On Being with Krista Tippett - January 08, 2009 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratingsIn this unedited conversation poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht says that as a scholar she always noticed the “shadow history” of doubt out of the corner of her eye. She shows how non-belief, skepticism, and doubt have paralleled and at times shaped the world’s great religious and secul...
Jennifer Michael Hecht - Doubt
Point of Inquiry - November 28, 2008 18:34 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 758 ratingsJennifer Michael Hecht is the author of award-winning books of philosophy, history, and poetry, including The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism and Anthropology; Doubt: A History; The Happiness Myth, and her book of poetry, Funny, which Publisher’s Weekly called one of the most origi...
Jennifer Michael Hecht - The Happiness Myth
Point of Inquiry - May 25, 2007 21:44 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 758 ratingsJennifer Michael Hecht is the author of award-winning books of philosophy, history, and poetry. Her Doubt: A History (HarperCollins, 2003) demonstrates a long, strong history of religious doubt from the origins of written history to the present day, all over the world. Hecht's The End of the Soul...
Interview: Jennifer Michael Hecht (Doubt)
Skepticality - The Official Podcast of Skeptic Magazine - July 06, 2005 04:25 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 466 ratingsWe discuss our new website, Swoopy covers the news, and we have an incredible discussion with Jennifer Michael Hecht. Author of the book 'Doubt: A history'. We talk about how doubt and skepticism has existed throughout known history, and how is has been viewed over time. An interesting discussion...