(Ebook) The Age of Atheists How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God 1st Edition by Peter Watson ISBN 1476754314 9781476754314

(Ebook) The Age of Atheists How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God 1st Edition by Peter Watson ISBN 1476754314 9781476754314

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ISBN 10: 1476754314 
ISBN 13: 9781476754314
Author: Peter Watson

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014 From one of England’s most distinguished intellectual historians comes “an exhilarating ride…that will stand the test of time as a masterful account of” (The Boston Globe) one of the West’s most important intellectual movements: Atheism. In 1882, Friedrich Nietzche declared that “God is dead” 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 Atheists—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, Watson’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 “highly readable and immensely wide-ranging…For anybody who has wondered about the meaning of life…an enthralling and mind-expanding experience” (The Washington Post).

(Ebook) The Age of Atheists How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God 1st Table of contents:

Part One: The Avant-Guerre: When Art Mattered
1. The Nietzsche Generation: Ecstasy, Eros, Excess
2. No One Way That Life Must Be
3. The Voluptuousness of Objects
4. Heaven: Not a Location but a Direction
5. Visions of Eden: The Worship of Color, Metal, Speed and the Moment
6. The Insistence of Desire
7. The Angel in Our Cheek
8. “The Wrong Supernatural World”
Part Two: One Abyss after Another
9. Redemption by War
10. The Bolshevik Crusade for Scientific Atheism
11. The Implicitness of Life and the Rules of Existence
12. The Imperfect Paradise
13. Living Down to Fact
14. The Impossibility of Metaphysics, a Reverence for Metapsychology
15. The Faiths of the Philosophers
16. Nazi Religions of the Blood
Part Three: Humanity at and after Zero Hour
17. The Aftermath of the Aftermath
18. The Warmth of Acts
19. War, the American Way and the Decline of Original Sin
20. Auschwitz, Apocalypse, Absence
21. “Quit Thinking!”
22. A Visionary Commonwealth and the Size of Life
23. The Luxury and Limits of Happiness
24. Faith in Detail
25. “Our Spiritual Goal Is the Enrichment of the Evolutionary Epic”
26. “The Good Life Is the Life Spent Seeking the Good Life”

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