Szymon Wróbel is a full professor in the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw and the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.Krzysztof Skonieczny is an assistant professor in the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw, Poland.

• 1. Introduction to Atheism.- 2. Modernity and Secularism.- 3.  Early Modern European Atheism with Chinese Characteristics – First Jesuit Descriptions of Neo-Confucianism and their Spinozist Reception.- 4. Beyond the enmity: the mechanization of nature and the moderate political atheism.- 5.  Heidegger on Technics, Power, and the Planetary.- 6. Political Significance of Atheism. Karl Marx’ Idea of the “Positive Abolition of Religion”.- 7. Nietzsche, Saint Paul and the Will of Life.- 8.  “We Are Still Pious”. Nietzsche and the Hard Problem of Atheism.- 9. The Visible Absence of Color: Herman Melville’s Troubled Atheism.- 10. Philosophical ‘Fundamentalism’ Today. On Return Statements: The Return of Religion in Contemporary Philosophy.- 11. New (and old) atheism(s) reconsidered.- 12. Reason Is Not Winning: A Proposed Blueprint for Moving Forward.- 13. From Atheism of the Concept Towards Atheism Without the Concept.- 14. Towards a Coalition of the Reasonable: Beyond Atheism vReligion.

Szymon Wróbel is a full professor in the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw and the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.Krzysztof Skonieczny is an assistant professor in the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw, Poland.

• 1. Introduction to Atheism.- 2. Modernity and Secularism.- 3.  Early Modern European Atheism with Chinese Characteristics – First Jesuit Descriptions of Neo-Confucianism and their Spinozist Reception.- 4. Beyond the enmity: the mechanization of nature and the moderate political atheism.- 5.  Heidegger on Technics, Power, and the Planetary.- 6. Political Significance of Atheism. Karl Marx’ Idea of the “Positive Abolition of Religion”.- 7. Nietzsche, Saint Paul and the Will of Life.- 8.  “We Are Still Pious”. Nietzsche and the Hard Problem of Atheism.- 9. The Visible Absence of Color: Herman Melville’s Troubled Atheism.- 10. Philosophical ‘Fundamentalism’ Today. On Return Statements: The Return of Religion in Contemporary Philosophy.- 11. New (and old) atheism(s) reconsidered.- 12. Reason Is Not Winning: A Proposed Blueprint for Moving Forward.- 13. From Atheism of the Concept Towards Atheism Without the Concept.- 14. Towards a Coalition of the Reasonable: Beyond Atheism vReligion.

Szymon Wróbel is a full professor in the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw and the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.Krzysztof Skonieczny is an assistant professor in the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw, Poland.

• 1. Introduction to Atheism.- 2. Modernity and Secularism.- 3.  Early Modern European Atheism with Chinese Characteristics – First Jesuit Descriptions of Neo-Confucianism and their Spinozist Reception.- 4. Beyond the enmity: the mechanization of nature and the moderate political atheism.- 5.  Heidegger on Technics, Power, and the Planetary.- 6. Political Significance of Atheism. Karl Marx’ Idea of the “Positive Abolition of Religion”.- 7. Nietzsche, Saint Paul and the Will of Life.- 8.  “We Are Still Pious”. Nietzsche and the Hard Problem of Atheism.- 9. The Visible Absence of Color: Herman Melville’s Troubled Atheism.- 10. Philosophical ‘Fundamentalism’ Today. On Return Statements: The Return of Religion in Contemporary Philosophy.- 11. New (and old) atheism(s) reconsidered.- 12. Reason Is Not Winning: A Proposed Blueprint for Moving Forward.- 13. From Atheism of the Concept Towards Atheism Without the Concept.- 14. Towards a Coalition of the Reasonable: Beyond Atheism vReligion.