Radical Atheism

Radical Atheism
Author: Martin Hägglund
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2008
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 080470077X

Radical Atheism challenges the religious appropriation of Derrida's work and offers a compelling new account of his thinking on time and space, life and death, good and evil, self and other.

Radical Atheism

Radical Atheism
Author: Martin Hägglund
Publisher: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2008
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780804700788

Radical Atheism challenges the religious appropriation of Derrida's work and offers a compelling new account of his thinking on time and space, life and death, good and evil, self and other.

When Atheism Becomes Religion

When Atheism Becomes Religion
Author: Chris Hedges
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2009-03-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1439158363

From the New York Times bestselling author of American Fascists and the NBCC finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning comes this timely and compelling work about new atheists: those who attack religion to advance the worst of global capitalism, intolerance and imperial projects. Chris Hedges, who graduated from seminary at Harvard Divinity School, has long been a courageous voice in a world where there are too few. He observes that there are two radical, polarized and dangerous sides to the debate on faith and religion in America: the fundamentalists who see religious faith as their prerogative, and the new atheists who brand all religious belief as irrational and dangerous. Both sides use faith to promote a radical agenda, while the religious majority, those with a commitment to tolerance and compassion as well as to their faith, are caught in the middle. The new atheists, led by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris, do not make moral arguments about religion. Rather, they have created a new form of fundamentalism that attempts to permeate society with ideas about our own moral superiority and the omnipotence of human reason. I Don't Believe in Atheists critiques the radical mindset that rages against religion and faith. Hedges identifies the pillars of the new atheist belief system, revealing that the stringent rules and rigid traditions in place are as strict as those of any religious practice. Hedges claims that those who have placed blind faith in the morally neutral disciplines of reason and science create idols in their own image -- a sin for either side of the spectrum. He makes an impassioned, intelligent case against religious and secular fundamentalism, which seeks to divide the world into those worthy of moral and intellectual consideration and those who should be condemned, silenced and eradicated. Hedges shatters the new atheists' assault against religion in America, and in doing so, makes way for new, moderate voices to join the debate. This is a book that must be read to understand the state of the battle about faith.

Seven Types of Atheism

Seven Types of Atheism
Author: John Gray
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2018-10-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0374714266

From the provocative author of Straw Dogs comes an incisive, surprising intervention in the political and scientific debate over religion and atheism When you explore older atheisms, you will find that some of your firmest convictions—secular or religious—are highly questionable. If this prospect disturbs you, what you are looking for may be freedom from thought. For a generation now, public debate has been corroded by a shrill, narrow derision of religion in the name of an often vaguely understood “science.” John Gray’s stimulating and enjoyable new book, Seven Types of Atheism, describes the complex, dynamic world of older atheisms, a tradition that is, he writes, in many ways intertwined with and as rich as religion itself. Along a spectrum that ranges from the convictions of “God-haters” like the Marquis de Sade to the mysticism of Arthur Schopenhauer, from Bertrand Russell’s search for truth in mathematics to secular political religions like Jacobinism and Nazism, Gray explores the various ways great minds have attempted to understand the questions of salvation, purpose, progress, and evil. The result is a book that sheds an extraordinary light on what it is to be human.

Difficult Atheism

Difficult Atheism
Author: Christopher Watkin
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2013-03-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0748677275

Drawing primarily on the work of Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy, plus Quentin Meillassoux and Slavoj Zizek, Watkin explores the theme of atheism through the ideas of the death of God and nihilism in contemporary French philosophy.

Radical Theology and the Death of God

Radical Theology and the Death of God
Author: Thomas J. J. Altizer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1966
Genre: Death of God theology
ISBN:

Joint author, William Hamilton, is an alumnus of Evanston Township High School, class of 1940.

Spiritual Atheist

Spiritual Atheist
Author: Nick Seneca Jankel
Publisher: Switch on Worldwide Limited
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2018-09-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781999731526

For the millions who want to find peace, love, and purpose without religion, Cambridge-educated leadership guru and philosopher Nick Jankel sets out a radical new life philosophy that reunites cutting-edge science with timeless spiritual wisdom to help us make better life choices and transform our life, love, and leadership challenges so we thrive.

Heidegger's Atheism

Heidegger's Atheism
Author: Laurence Paul Hemming
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2002
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

This work traces the development of Heidegger's explanation of philosophy as a methodological atheism, relating it to his reading of Aristotle, Aquinas and Nietzsche. A predominant issue throughout this study is Heidegger's pursuit of an answer to the question: How did God get into philosophy?

The Last Night

The Last Night
Author: Federico Campagna
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2013-10-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1782791949

Our secular society seems to have finally found its new God: Work. As technological progress makes human labor superfluous, and over-production destroys both the economy and the planet, Work remains stronger than ever as a mantra of universal submission. This book develops a fully-fledged theory of radical atheism, advocating a disrespectful, opportunist squandering of obedience. By replacing hope and faith with adventure, The Last Night of our lives might finally become the first morning of an autonomous future. ,

Arguing for Atheism

Arguing for Atheism
Author: Robin Le Poidevin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134871112

First Published in 2004. In Arguing for Atheism, Robin Le Poidevin addresses the question of whether theism-the view that there is a personal, transcendent creator of the universe - solves the deepest mysteries of existence. Philosophical defences of theism have often been based on the idea that it explains things which atheistic approaches cannot: for example, why the universe exists, and how there can be objective moral values. The main contention of Arguing for Atheism is that the reverse is true: that in fact theism fails to explain many things it claims to, while atheism can explain some of the things it supposedly leaves mysterious. It is also argued that religion need not depend on belief in God. Designed as a text for university courses in the philosophy of religion and metaphysics, this book’s accessible style and numerous explanations of important philosophical concepts and positions will also make it attractive to the general reader.