Rebecca Newberger Goldsteinreceived her doctorate in philosophy from Princeton University. Her award-winning books include the novels "The Mind-Body Problem, Properties of Light, " and "Mazel, " and nonfiction studies of Kurt Godel and Baruch Spinoza. She has received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and Guggenheim and Radcliffe fellowships, and she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005. She lives in Massachusetts.
"Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she
has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach." --Ian
McEwan
"Amid the multitude of bestselling books by atheists and apologists
preaching to their respective choirs, here finally is an answer to
prayer and reason: a brainy, compassionate, divinely witty
novel...sports so many spot-on episodes of cerebral pomposity that
you've got to place this novel among the very funniest ever
written. Goldstein doesn't want to shake your faith or confirm it,
but she'll make you a believer in the power of fiction." -"The
Washington Post Book World"
"Appeared like an answer to a fevered prayer...Part academic farce,
part metaphysical romance, all novel of ideas, "36 Arguments for
the Existence of God" may not settle the question of whether God
exists but it does affirm the phenomenon of literary miracles."
-Fresh Air from WHYY
"Rollicking....Irreverent and witty, Goldstein seamlessly weaves
philosophy into this lively and colorful chronicle of intellectual
and emotional struggles."
--"Publishers Weekly, "starred review
"MacArthur fellow Goldstein, philosopher and writer, continues her
many-faceted inquiry into the nature of genius and the intersection
between religion and science, returning to fiction (Properties of
Light, 2000) and ramping up her gifts for radiant humor and the
transmutation of metaphysics, mathematics, and Jewish mysticism
into narrative gold. Cass Seltzer, whose field is the psychology of
religion, and who is madly in love with Lucinda Mandelbaum, the
"Goddess of Game Theory," has written the surprise best-seller The
Variety of Religious Illusion, achieving fame as "the atheist with
a soul." But when his old flame, the fearless and irreverent
anthropologist Roz, reappears, he is hurtled back to the past,
launching a scintillating romp of academic ambition and spiritual
conundrums with a cast of whirling brainiacs. There's Cass' edgy
ex-wife, the Frenc
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