Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

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February 23, 1950 in White Plains, New York, The United States

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http://www.rebeccagoldstein.com

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Literature & Fiction, Philosophy, Biographies & Memoirs

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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. While in graduate school she was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship and a Whiting Foundation Fellowship.

After earning her Ph.D. she returned to her alma mater, where she taught courses in philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, the rationalists, the empiricists, and the ancient Greeks. It was some time during her tenure at Barnard that, quite to her own surprise, she used a summer vacation to write her first novel, The Mind-Body...more

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Books by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

Average rating: 3.58 · 1,928 ratings · 472 reviews · 10 distinct works

	36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction 3.49 avg rating — 830 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Mind-Body Problem 3.66 avg rating — 296 ratings — published 1983 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel 3.82 avg rating — 289 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity 3.78 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Mazel 3.39 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics 3.35 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind 3.61 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Strange Attractors: Stories 3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Dark Sister 3.09 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Hanukkah Lights: A Collection of Stories and Narrative About Hanukkah by Stefan Rudnicki (Editor), Harlan Ellison, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“We each carry our own designated end within us, our very own death ripening at its own rate inside of us. There are insignificant people who are harboring unawares the grandeur of large deaths. We carry it in us like a darkening fruit. It opens and spills out. That is death.”
― Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics

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“And if the prodigious genius of Azarya Sheiner has never found the solution, then perhaps that is proof that no solution exists, that the most gifted among us is feeble in mind against the brutality of incomprehensibility that assutalts us from all sides. And so we try, as best we cn, to do justice to the tremendousness of our improbable existence. And so we live, as best we can, for ourselves, or who will live for us? And we live, as best we can, for others, otherwise what are we?”
― Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction

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“I've got access to your mysterious body but not your mysterious soul. Souls seem to me the loneliest possibility of all.”
― Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics

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