"Atheism was the most foundational challenge to early-modern French certainties. Theologians and philosophers labelled such atheism as absurd, confident that neither the fact nor behaviour of nature was explicable without reference to God. The alternative was a categorical natur…
"Basing his contention on two different lines of argument, Michael Bryson posits that John Milton--possibly the most famous 'Christian' poet in English literary history--was, in fact, an atheist." --
"This book provides the first comprehensive overview of atheism, secularity and non-religion in Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In contrast to scholarship that has focused on the 'decline of religion' and secularization theory, the book bu…
"Nel terzo volume della sua trilogia dedicata ai movimento intellettuali del Settecento francese, l'autore affronta il problema della battaglia contro la religione e in favore dell'ateismo, sostenuta dai principali esponenti del movimento enciclopedista,"--P. [4] of cover.
"Religions and spiritual traditions that deny the existence of God existed long before "spiritual but not religious" became the catchphrase of the day. Spirituality without God reminds us that the West does not hold patents on agnosticism or atheism and is the first survey of go…
"This book presents a pragmatic response to arguments against religion made by the New Atheism movement. The author argues that analytic and empirical philosophies of religion-the mainstream approaches in contemporary philosophy of religion-are methodologically unequipped to add…
We can't avoid the persistent questions about the meaning of life and the nature of reality. Philosopher Alex Rosenberg maintains that science is the only thing that can really answer them--all of them. His upbeat book takes physics seriously as the complete description of reali…