Varieties of Atheism

Connecting Religion and Its Critics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

Thoughtful essays to revive dialogue about atheism beyond belief. The Varieties of Atheism reveals the diverse nonreligious experiences obscured by the combative intellectualism of Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens. In fact, contributors contend that narrowly defining atheism as the belief that there is no god misunderstands religious and nonreligious persons altogether. The essays show that, just as religion exceeds doctrine, atheism also encompasses every dimension of human life: from imagination and feeling to community and ethics. Contributors offer new, expansive perspectives on atheism’s diverse history and possible futures. By recovering lines of affinity and tension between particular atheists and particular religious traditions, this book paves the way for fruitful conversation between religious and non-religious people in our secular age.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-12-09
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:426 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226822679

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David Newheiser is a senior research fellow in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University. He is the author of Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith.

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“What does it mean to be an atheist? It’s not just one thing, it’s not just disbelief in god. There’s a positive expression connected to ideas of ethics, our relationship with authority, how reason and experience and the material world inform our lives, when does science become moral–these are big questions that we have to ask. This book points the way to a positive belief.”

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionThe Genealogy of AtheismDavid Newheiser1 Atheism and Science: On Einstein’s “Cosmic Religious Sense”Mary-Jane Rubenstein2 Atheism and Society: Hume’s Prefiguration of RortyAndre C. Willis3 Atheism and Power: Nietzsche, Nominalism, and the Reductive SpiritDenys Turner4 Atheism and Ethics: Recovering the Link between Truth and TransformationSusannah Ticciati5 Atheism and Metaphysics: A Problem of Apophatic TheologyHenning Tegtmeyer6 Atheism and Politics: Abandonment, Absence, and the Empty ThroneDevin Singh7 Atheism and Literature: Living without God in Dante’s ComedyVittorio Montemaggi8 Atheism and the Affirmation of Life: Dostoevsky’s Response to Russian NihilismGeorge PattisonAfterword: The Drama of AtheismConstance M. FureyAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex