Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jennifer Michael Hecht (2005)

Jennifer Michael Hecht (born November 23, 1965 in Glen Cove , Long Island , New York ) is an American philosophy historian , university professor and writer .

Life

Hecht completed her studies at Adelphi University and graduated in 1995 with a doctorate in history from Columbia University in New York City. In addition, she completed several semesters abroad at the Université de Caen and the Université d'Angers . At the New York Institute for the Humanities , she received Fellow status as a researcher. As a university teacher, she is active in the Graduate Writing Program at The New School , New York University , where she teaches creative writing in poetry and philosophy. As an essayist and literary critic , she has a. a. published in the New York Times , The Washington Post and "The American Scholar" . She was a columnist for the New York Times under Happy Days and Times Select.

Jennifer Michael Hecht lives in Brooklyn , New York City , she is married and has two children.

The Next Ancient World. , Poetry, Tupelo Press, 2001 ISBN 978-0971031005 .
The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France. Columbia University Press , New York City 2003, ISBN 978-0231128469
Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson. HarperOne, San Francisco 2003, ISBN 978-0060097721 .
- Dúvida: uma História , 2005 (translation into Portuguese / Brazilian)
Funny. , Poetry, University of Wisconsin Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0299214043 .
The Happiness Myth: The Historical Antidote to What Isn't Working Today. HarperOne, San Francisco 2008, ISBN 978-0060859503 .
Who Said. , Poetry, Copper Canyon Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-55659-449-6 .
Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It. Yale University Press , New Haven 2014, ISBN 978-0300186086 .

2001 ForeWord Magazine's Poetry Book of the Year for The Next Ancient World
2001 Tupelo Press Judge's Prize for The Next Ancient World
2002 Norma Farber's First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America 's for The Next Ancient World
2004 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of Phi Beta Kappa Society for The End of the Soul
2005 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry for Funny

www.jennifermichaelhecht.com/ Official website of the author
Poem by Hecht , in the New Yorker October 3, 2011
Jennifer Michael Hecht: The Triumph of Poetic Atheism (Video from the Ethical Culture Society Bergen)