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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (born February 23, 1950) is an American philosopher, novelist, and public intellectual. She has written ten books, both fiction and non-fiction.
Literature & Fiction, Philosophy, Biographies & Memoirs. edit data. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein grew up in White Plains, New York, and graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College, receiving the Montague Prize for Excellence in Philosophy, and immediately went on to graduate work at Princeton University, receiving her Ph.D. in philosophy.
“Plato lives! Brilliantly re-creating Plato’s philosophic dialogues, Goldstein transports the ancient Greek philosopher to the twenty-first-century headquarters of Google, where his probing voice engages three modern hosts in exploring what knowledge means in an age of computerized crowd sourcing” — ★ Booklist (starred)
Rebecca Goldstein is a writer whose novels and short stories dramatize the concerns of philosophy without sacrificing the demands of imaginative storytelling. Her books tell a compelling story as they describe with wit, compassion and originality the interaction of mind and heart.
Rebecca Goldstein has 24 books on Goodreads with 39674 ratings. Rebecca Goldstein’s most popular book is The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits o...
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein writes novels and nonfiction that explore questions of philosophy, morality and being. Why you should listen.
Goldstein, Rebecca 1950- (Rebecca Newberger Goldstein) PERSONAL: Born February 23, 1950, in White Plains, NY; daughter of Bezalel (a cantor) and Loretta (a homemaker) Newberger; married Sheldon Goldstein (a physicist); children: Yael Tamar, Danielle Elizabeth.
Dazzling, [and] sparked by frequent flashes of nonchalant brilliance, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God affirms Ms. Goldstein’s rare ability to explore the quotidian and the cosmological with equal ease. ...
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a philosopher and the author of five novels, including Properties of Light (Houghton Mifflin, 2000); a collection of short stories, Strange Attractors (Viking, 1993); and two books of nonfiction, most recently Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (Schocken, 2006).
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, for bringing philosophy into conversation with culture. In scholarship, Dr. Goldstein has elucidated the ideas of Spinoza and Gödel, while in fiction, she deploys wit and drama to help us understand the great human conflict between thought and feeling.
