The Age of Atheists How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God 2nd Edition by Peter Watson ISBN 1476754314 9781476754314
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ISBN 10: 1476754314
ISBN 13: 9781476754314
Author: Peter Watson
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014
From one of England’s most distinguished intellectual historians comes “an exhilarating ride…that will stand the test of time as a masterful account of” (The Boston Globe) one of the West’s most important intellectual movements: Atheism.
In 1882, Friedrich Nietzche declared that “God is dead” and ever since tens of thousands of brilliant, courageous, thoughtful individuals have devoted their creative energies to devising ways to live without God with self-reliance, invention, hope, wit, and enthusiasm. Now, for the first time, their story is revealed.
A captivating story of contest, failure, and success, The Age of Atheists sweeps up William James and the pragmatists; Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis; Pablo Picasso, James Joyce, and Albert Camus; the poets of World War One and the novelists of World War Two; scientists, from Albert Einstein to Stephen Hawking; and the rise of the new Atheists—Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens. This is a story of courage, of the thousands of individuals who, sometimes at great risk, devoted tremendous creative energies to devising ways to fill a godless world with self-reliance, invention, hope, wit, and enthusiasm. Watson explains how atheism has evolved and reveals that the greatest works of art and literature, of science and philosophy of the last century can be traced to the rise of secularism.
From Nietzsche to Daniel Dennett, Watson’s stirring intellectual history manages to take the revolutionary ideas and big questions of these great minds and movements and explain them, making the connections and concepts simple without being simplistic. The Age of Atheists is “highly readable and immensely wide-ranging…For anybody who has wondered about the meaning of life…an enthralling and mind-expanding experience” (The Washington Post).
Table of contents:
Is There Something Missing in Our Lives?
Part One
No One Way That Life Must Be
The Voluptuousness of Objects
Not a Location but a Direction
The Worship of Color, Metal, Speed
The Insistence of Desire
The Angel in Our Cheek
The Wrong Supernatural World
Part Two
The Bolshevik Crusade for Scientific Atheism
The Implicitness of Life and the Rules of Existence
The Imperfect Paradise
Living Down to Fact
The Impossibility of Metaphysics: A Reverence for Metapsychology
The Faiths of the Philosophers
Nazi Religions of the Blood
Part Three
The Aftermath of the Aftermath
The Warmth of Acts
War the American Way and the Decline of Original Sin
Auschwitz, Apocalypse, Absence
Quit Thinking
A Visionary Commonwealth and the Size of Life
The Luxury and Limits of Happiness
Faith in Detail
Our Spiritual Goal Is the Enrichment of the Evolutionary Epic
The Good Life Is the Life Spent Seeking the Good Life
The Central Sane Activity
Acknowledgments
Notes and References
Index
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