While I most definitely did not agree with all of the contributions in the volume, and while I am generally more supportive of the new atheists than I am of their detractors, I found this volume over-all to be a compelling, engrossing, and provocative contribution."--Phil Zucker…
Presents a collection of original essays drawn from an international group of prominent voices in the fields of academia, science, literature, media and politics who offer carefully considered statements of why they are atheists. Russell Blackford, Monash University, Australia. …
Ian Markham analyzes the atheistic world view, opposing the arguments given by renowned authors of books on atheism, such as Richard Dawkins. Unlike other responses to the new atheism, Markham challenges these authors on their own ground by questioning their understanding of bel…
The historical achievements of religious belief have been large and well chronicled. But what about the accomplishments of those who have challenged religion' Traveling from classical Greece to twenty-first century America, Imagine There's No Heaven explores the role of disbelie…
"The historical achievements of religious belief have been large and well chronicled. But what about the accomplishments of those who have challenged religion? Traveling from classical Greece to twenty-first century America, Imagine There s No Heaven explores the role of disbeli…
Looks at the nature of religion, God's place in it, and the possibility of humanist religion without God.
Looks at the nature of religion, God's place in it, and the possibility of humanist religion without God.
'The New Atheists' argues that the threat of religious fanaticism is mirrored by a no less virulent and ignorant secular fanaticism which has taken hold of the intellectual classes. Both sides neglect wider questions about faith, science, power and justice in a postmodern world,…
This handbook explores atheism - understood in the broad sense of 'an absence of belief in the existence of a God or gods' - in its historical and contemporary expressions. It probes the varied manifestations and implications of unbelief from an array of disciplinary perspective…
Recent books by, among others, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have thrust atheism firmly into the popular, media, and academic spotlight. This so-called New Atheism is arguably the most striking development in western socio-religious culture of the past de…
Difficult Atheism shows how contemporary French philosophy is rethinking the legacy of the death of God in ways that take the debate beyond the narrow confines of atheism into the much broader domain of post-theological thinking. Christopher Watkin argues that Alain Badiou, Jean…
"Roger Scruton explores the place of God in a disenchanted world. His argument is a response to the atheist culture that is now growing around us, and also a defence of human uniqueness. He rebuts the claim that there is no meaning or purpose in the natural world, and argues tha…
"Abed Azzam offers a fresh interpretation of Nietzsche's engagement with the work of Paul the Apostle, reorienting the relationship between the two thinkers while embedding modern philosophy within early Christian theology. Paying careful attention to Nietzsche's dialectics, Azz…
Nineteen leading philosophers open a window on the inner life of atheism, shattering common stereotypes as they reveal how they came to turn away from religious belief.
Editor's Introduction. Acknowledgements. Part One - Journeys. 1. Faith and Reason, the Perpetual War: Ruminations of a Fool, Stewart Shapiro (Ohio State). 2. From Yeshiva Bochur to Secular Humanist, Joseph Levine (U Mass Amherst). 3. Religio Philosophi, Daniel Garber (Princeton)…
