The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the

The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014

From one of Englandâ€™s most distinguished intellectual historians comes â€œan exhilarating rideâ€¦that will stand the test of time as a masterful account ofâ€ (The Boston Globe) one of the Westâ€™s most important intellectual movements: Atheism.

In 1882, Friedrich Nietzche declared that â€œGod is deadâ€ 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 Atheistsâ€”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, Watsonâ€™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 â€œhighly readable and immensely wide-rangingâ€¦For anybody who has wondered about the meaning of lifeâ€¦an enthralling and mind-expanding experienceâ€ (The Washington Post).
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 1476754322_Very_Good
ReleaseDate 2014-12-23
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781476754321

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	1476754322_Very_Good
ReleaseDate	2014-12-23
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781476754321

The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God

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