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Winner of the National Jewish Book Award and a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Award Goldstein presents a novel that transforms the great debate between faith and reason into an exhilarating romance of both heart and mind. nFrom the author of The Mind-Body Problem a witty and intoxicating novel of ideas that plunges into the great debate between faith and reason. nAt the center is Cass Seltzer, a professor of psychology whose book, The Varieties of Religious Illusion, has become a surprise best seller. Dubbed the atheist with a soul, he wins over the stunning Lucinda Mandelbaum--the goddess of game theory. But he is haunted by reminders of two people who ignited his passion to understand religion: his teacher Jonas Elijah Klapper, a renowned literary scholar with a suspicious obsession with messianism, and an angelic six-year-old mathematical genius, heir to the leadership of an exotic Hasidic sect. n nHilarious, heartbreaking, and intellectually captivating, 36 Arguments explores the rapture and torments of religious experience in all its variety.n
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Brand: Rebecca Goldstein
