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John Gray''s stimulating and extremely enjoyable new book describes the rich, complex world of the atheist tradition, a tradition which he sees as in many ways as rich as that of religion itself, as well as being deeply intertwined with what is so often crudely viewed as its ''opposite''. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is a book that sheds an extraordinary and varied light on what it is to be human and on the thinkers who have, at different times and places, battled to understand this issue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA highly readable, fascinating book that jerks the debate on religion versus atheism right out of its crusted rut into the light of serious intellectual scrutiny * Observer *\u003cbr\u003ePithy and revelatory -- Christopher Bellaigue * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eWonderful ... the range, thoughtfulness and trenchant sense of Gray's sweep across the centuries of thought is wholly exhilarating ... one of the few books that I started to reread a couple of minutes after I'd finished it. -- Melvyn Bragg * New Statesman *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732500590935,"sku":"9780141981109","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"atheism-what-everyone-needs-to-know-what-everyone-needs-to-knowr-9780199334582","title":"Atheism What Everyone Needs to Know What Everyone","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the last decade, New Atheists such as Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have pushed the issue of atheism to the forefront of public discussion. Yet very few of the ensuing debates and discussions have managed to provide a full and objective treatment of the subject.Atheism: What Everyone Needs to Know provides a balanced look at the topic, considering atheism historically, philosophically, theologically, sociologically and psychologically. Written in an easily accessible style, the book uses a question and answer format to examine the history of atheism, arguments for and against atheism, the relationship between religion and science, and the issue of the meaning of life-and whether or not one can be a happy and satisfied atheist. Above all, the author stresses that the atheism controversy is not just a matter of the facts, but a matter of burning moral concern, both about the stand one should take on the issues and the consequences of one''s commitment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003einteresting and thought-provoking * Guardian, GrrlScientist *\u003cbr\u003eFully aware of how tedious tracts on either theology or atheism can be, Michael Ruse sets out not to be boring. He succeeds! As a nonbeliever who hesitates to call himself an atheist, he also strives in this book to be balanced and fair to his opponents. I'll let other readers decide whether he succeeds or not, but I can say that even where I disagree with him, I find his book much more informed and compelling than the recent, much less educated New Atheist putdowns of people of faith. Before reading Dennett, Dawkins, Harris or Hitchens, read Michael Ruse. * John F. 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This isn't a book about, or even particularly in defence of atheism as a worldview, but it sets out objectively a history of non-religious thought that covers everything from science to poetry, incorporating philosophy, the rise of new age 'spiritualism' and therapy. -- GREG JAMESON * ENTERTAINMENT FOCUS *\u003cbr\u003eThere is much in this book that I did not know, and I am grateful to have learnt it. -- Theodore Dalrymple * THE TIMES *\u003cbr\u003ehis erudition is formidable -- Theodore Dalymple * THE TIMES *\u003cbr\u003eThe beauty of this book is Watson's ability to impose order on a riot of ideas. * Publisher's Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eThis book will appeal to anyone with intellectual curiosity about the human  condition and the development of ideas. It will especially appeal to the  non-religious reader. 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By exploring the implications of different forms of atheism and their relation to different conceptions of science, politics, power, ethics, literature, and, indeed, life, this book is a major contribution to the study of religion and its critics. Anyone interested in the relation between religion and the modern world will have much to learn from this exciting collection.” -- Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e The Genealogy of Atheism\u003cbr\u003e    David Newheiser\u003cbr\u003e 1 Atheism and Science: On Einstein’s “Cosmic Religious Sense”\u003cbr\u003e    Mary-Jane Rubenstein\u003cbr\u003e 2 Atheism and Society: Hume’s Prefiguration of Rorty\u003cbr\u003e    Andre C. 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Furey\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400130928983,"sku":"9780226822679","price":76.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226822679.jpg?v=1730469827"},{"product_id":"atheists-in-america-9780231163590","title":"Atheists in America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn intimate psychological study of a largely invisible minority navigating life in a religious world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAtheists in America is a unique contribution to the literature on atheism touching on topics rarely discussed or researched. I do not know of any other book on the market that seeks to bring together individual narratives of deconversion and the challenges faced afterward. -- Amarnath Amarasingam, York University Atheists in America-a vital new contribution to the growing literature on nonbelievers-reveals in their own words how a wide diversity of people learned to live lives of integrity and meaning without God. The book also grants readers ready to hear it the message that not only is it okay not to believe, being an atheist can be both enlightening and liberating. -- Michael Shermer, editor of Skeptic I used to preach that atheists are fools who lead sad, empty, meaningless, and immoral lives. Then I actually met some atheists. After reading the moving and honest stories in Atheists in America, you will agree with me that nonbelievers lead reasonable, moral, and purposeful lives. -- Dan Barker, copresident, Freedom from Religion Foundation Intriguing... 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Ain't No Mountain High Enough: Navigating Romantic Relationships as an Atheist 12. An Atheist's Simple Revelation About Love: It's Complicated, by Ethan Sahker 13. Swept Under the Rug, by Kristen Rurouni 14. On Love and Credulity, by Matt Hart Part 5. Family Life and Atheist Parenting 15. Dinner with Grandma, by Ronnelle Adams 16. Parenting Authentically in an Interfaith Marriage, by Kevin J. Zimmerman 17. Having a Baby Made Me an Atheist, by Amy Watkins 18. Born Secular, by Adrienne Filardo Fagan Part 6. The Search for Connection: Coming Out to Friends and Questing for Community 19. Slow Growth, by Justus Humphrey 20. An Atheist in the Bible Belt, by Brittany Friedel 21. Coming Out and Finding Home, by Pam Zerba Part 7. Atheism at Work: Tales of Coming Out to Coworkers and Colleagues 22. Is This the Way to Amarillo?, by Samuel W. Needleman 23. Cracking Open the Closet Door, by Camilo Ortiz 24. My Favorite Atheist, by John Douma Part 8. 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Thanks to Jeff Love's translation, we can open up anew those philosophical movements of interwar France, including phenomenology and existentialism, which Kojève would so profoundly affect. -- Stefanos Geroulanos, New York University\u003cbr\u003eIn Jeff Love's careful translation, this difficult text exudes the irresistible attraction of Kojève's philosophical prose. 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This splendid translation of his erudite, eccentric 1931 text reveals him taking on the most Dostoevskian of questions with all the wisdom of Western Europe at his back. What is our relation to what is outside the world? Here is an inquiry into atheistic anthropology that would have thrilled Heidegger himself. -- Caryl Emerson, Princeton University\u003cbr\u003eAlexandre Kojève became famous and influential primarily because of his seminar on Hegel's \u003ci\u003ePhenomenology of Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e that was given in Paris between the years 1933 and 1939. This seminar was regularly attended by leading figures of the French intellectual life of that time such as Georges Bataille and Jacques Lacan. 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Haldane an Smart show that the dispute over the existence of God is very much alive among the best philosophers at the end of the twentieth century.\" \u003ci\u003eLinda Zagzebski, University of Oklahoma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book show contemporary academic philosophy at its best.\" \u003ci\u003eScientific and Medical Network Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the Second Edition. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: J. J. Haldane and J. J. C. Smart.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 1: Atheism and Theism: J. J. C. Smart.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Theism, Spirituality and Science.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The New Teleology and the Old.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Pantheism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Fine Tuning and the Anthropic Cosmological Principle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Argument from the Appearance of Design.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. God as an Ethical Principle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Argument from Contingency.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. The Argument from Religious Experience.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Pascal's Wager.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Miracles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Higher Criticism of the New Testament.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. The Problem of Evil.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Historical Theism and Metaphysical Theism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 2: Atheism and Theism: J. J. Haldane.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Theism and Science.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Some Varieties of Explanation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. 'Old' Teleology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. 'New' Teleology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Cause of Things.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. God and the World.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. God, Good and Evil.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Liberty and Providence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Theism - Philosophical and Religious.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 3: Reply to Haldane: J. J. C. Smart.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Methodology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Representation and Intentionality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Chicken and Egg.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Eternity and Sempeternity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Theism and the Problem of Evil.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 4: Reply to Smart: J. J. Haldane.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Methodology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Existence of God.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Metaphysical Matters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Reason, Faith and Revelation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. A Religious Conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword: J. J. C. Smart and J. J. 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It is the first full account of Soviet atheism, from the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. This engaging book is full of striking analysis and counterintuitive insights.\"\u003cb\u003e---Gene Zubovich, \u003ci\u003eReligion \u0026amp; Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Smolkin’s profound book . . . allows us to see not only the struggle of atheists against religion in the Soviet Union, but also to formulate some important conclusions about the Soviet society. This is one of the decade’s most successful and important scholarly works on this topic.\"\u003cb\u003e---Nikolay Mitrokhin, \u003ci\u003eBremen University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Victoria Smolkin’s important new study of the history of Soviet atheism places the state’s fluid, quasi-adaptive approaches to eradicating religion at the center of a story about the communist party’s failure to fully win over the hearts and minds of ordinary people. This book beautifully fills an empty space, and will be of great value to scholars and students across all disciplines in our field.\"\u003cb\u003e---Yvonne Howell, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Richmond\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Learning about atheism is a fascinating way to enrich one’s knowledge of religion, and vice versa; Smolkin reminds us that the boundaries between conceptual social categories are more porous than we often realize or admit . . . . Smolkin’s impressive first book broadens our perspective on what qualifies as “sacred,” and educates us on the power and limitations of human conviction in driving the great cycles of historical change.\"\u003cb\u003e---Anais Garvanian, \u003ci\u003eThe Graduate Journal of Harvard Divinity School\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Delivered in a highly readable narrative, [Smolkin’s] cogent analysis and challenging conclusions offer much to historians of religion and the Soviet Union: there is also no doubt that students and the interested general public will find the work intriguing and illuminating.\"\u003cb\u003e---James M. White, \u003ci\u003eEuropean History Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book is written in an accessible way . . . 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This beautifully written book—which addresses universal themes such as why there is a need for religion in a modern society—will be of interest to a wide array of readers in any field.\"\u003cb\u003e---Laurie Manchester, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Smolkin makes a major contribution to the study of religion and of ideology in the late Soviet period. She demonstrates effectively that ideology did matter to the Soviet project, even—indeed especially—in the Brezhnev era, and that religion served as the barometer of ideological health. . . . A real strength of Smolkin’s analysis is precisely the connection she makes to the broader ideological problem of indifference and commitment. Whereas several recent works have rightly sought to bring Soviet antireligious measures into the broader scholarly discussion of secularization and state secularism, Smolkin rightly demonstrates that secularization in the sense of removal of religion from public life or indifference to religion was not the objective of the Soviet regime. Rather, the goal was belief in a sacred antireligion, a convinced atheism. This important book should be read by all scholars interested in religion in the USSR, ideology in the late Soviet period, and secularization and secularism in the twentieth century.\"\u003cb\u003e---Heather J. Coleman, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the American Academy of Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In her fascinating overview, Smolkin demonstrates the paradoxical nature of the atheistic propaganda in the Soviet Union. . . . Smolkin’s book, which is based on the deep investigation of the variety of documents representing the ideas and spirit of the propagandists of Soviet atheism, considerably supplements our understanding of the interdependence of religion and atheism in the Soviet domain.\"\u003cb\u003e---Elena A. Stepanova, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Religion in Europe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the greatest strengths of Smolkin’s book is the varied and comprehensive nature of the materials she draws on. Having worked in state and party archives, surveyed atheist publications, and interviewed key figures from the Soviet study of religion, Smolkin is able to provide an overview of atheist work that has no parallel in the current literature. This well-written book makes essential reading for anyone interested in the history of Soviet ideology or in comparative histories of modern religion and secularization.\"\u003cb\u003e---Sonja Luehrmann, \u003ci\u003eCanadian Slavonic Papers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403842429271,"sku":"9780691174273","price":38.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691174273.jpg?v=1730484690"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/collections\/agnosticism-and-atheism.oembed?page=7","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}