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aware of the equal cacophony of birth and pleasure that shadow their admittedly much more deafening symphony of death and suffering. Dickinson I treasure beyond measure and think she's mostly on my side of the nonbeliever line; anyway, she's my number-one poet. Hopkins has a few rhyming hunks of pure passion, frustrated but wild, which I love with a love that is more than a love, but which only go so far. Donne is deep and great company, but he leans too much into comforting delusions for me, often when he is at his best in poetic chops and pyrotechnics. Rilke is a lifesaving self-help writer and a bit of a brilliant con artist."
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interview, she went on to say, "The beautiful building and coming together and reminding oneself of community, of how we must each take the role that is given us, know yourself, remember death, control your desires, these are the big messages of wisdom. And religion got it right that you have to meditate on them for them to work."
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Her poetry and philosophy often intersect, and she has taught a course called "Poets and Philosophy" at the New School for many years. Her own taste is for poets who are concerned with philosophical or religious questions. "Leopardi's misery makes me as happy as Schopenhauer's does, though I am ever
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She believes that morality is not magical, it is the attempt to do right. And rather than either being handed to us by God or just made up by each person, is inherent in human groups. "There are deep rules of morality that we as human beings, in human groups, 'invented' on biological and social and
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the world, in which we make up no other, I find that world to be the best one. I'm glad there's no afterlife. I like the world as it is. And I think that religion does add a tremendous amount of guilt and pain and trouble." Hecht does not, however, believe that religion is all bad. In that same
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Hecht was raised Jewish and believed in God until she was twelve when she had what she describes as a "Talking Heads headshift", standing in her parents' house saying, "This is not my beautiful couch, I am not your beautiful daughter." In the days that followed she came to see that "we are one
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She has written against agnosticism, calling "philosophically silly" the argument that because you can't prove a negative we have to allow for the possibility of God. "Either you doubt everything to the point where you can't speak, or you make reasoned decisions."
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in which she attempts to examine happiness through historical perspective. Hecht maintains that our current perception of happiness is affected by culture, and that future generations may well mock our view of happiness as we make fun of earlier generations.
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Of her three major intellectual interests, she ranks them, "Poetry came first, then historical scholarship, then public atheism, and they probably remain in that order in my dedication to them."
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podcast in 2007, she said "I'm not trying really to get somebody out of depression, but I sure am trying to get people to not be so worried, so anxious over things that really don't matter."
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it was very much to show people who felt that doubting religion or getting away from religion was painful. I find the world in which the natural world that we see
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Hecht has been an outspoken member of the secular community since 2003, accepting the label "atheist" somewhat reluctantly. "Initially after writing my book
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species among great nature, and as the trees very slowly rot, so do our pampered haunches." Eventually, she replaced faith in God with faith in humanity.
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Hecht has seven published books, her scholarly articles have been published in many journals and magazines, and her poetry has appeared in
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While researching her first book, she came to realize that there was no sufficient history of atheism, and that led to her second book,
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Doubt, A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
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podcast, when asked, "Do you think religion might actually be harmful for one's happiness?", she said, "Yes ... when I wrote
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Hecht, Jennifer Michael (Summer 1997). "A vigilant anthropology: Léonce Manouvrier and the disappearing numbers".
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Hecht believes that, "the basic modern assumptions about how to be happy are nonsense." In a review of her book,
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from 1994 to 2007, finally as a tenured associate professor of history. Hecht has taught in the MFA programs at
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Magazine, Hecht examined "The Last Taboo" in American politics, atheism. Referencing newly retired Rep.
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online "Times Select." In 2010 Hecht was one of the five nonfiction judges for the National Book Award.
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In 2003 Hecht published two books of history and philosophy with two different publishers. The first,
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Originally intending to be a poet, she was drawn to the history of science. Her first book,
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The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France, 1876-1936
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The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France, 1876-1936
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The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives
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The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives
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The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and Poetry of Our Lives
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The Happiness Myth: The Historical Antidote to What Isn't Working Today
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web site and maintains a personal blog on her website. She resides in
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The Lion and the Honeycomb, part of The Best American Poetry blog
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and other publications. She has written several columns for
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Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It
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Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It
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Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It
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to discover links between personality, ability and brain
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The Happiness Myth: Why What We Think Is Right Is Wrong
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Scale of Doubt Quiz created by Jennifer Michael Hecht
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on the history of religious and philosophical doubt.
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