A renowned British intellectual examines the role of ?older atheisms,? focusing on how some of history?s great minds, such as Schopenhauer and Bertrand Russell, confronted questions of salvation, purpose and evil using secular traditions, including mathematics, Jacobinism and mysticism.
A renowned British intellectual examines the role of ?older atheisms,? focusing on how some of history?s great minds, such as Schopenhauer and Bertrand Russell, confronted questions of salvation, purpose and evil using secular traditions, including mathematics, Jacobinism and mysticism.
John Gray is the author of many critically acclaimed books, including The Silence of Animals, The Immortalization Commission, Black Mass, and Straw Dogs. A regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, he has been a professor of politics at Oxford, a visiting professor at Harvard and Yale, and a professor of European thought at the London School of Economics. He now writes full-time.
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Introduction: How to be an Atheist What religion is not 1. The New Atheism: A Nineteenth-century Orthodoxy The Grand Pontiff of Humanity Why science cannot dispel religion The true threat to monotheism New atheism and old illiberalism 2. Secular Humanism, a Sacred Relic Progress, a Christian myth Plato for the masses John Stuart Mill, the saint of rationalism Bertrand Russell, unwilling sceptic From Nietzsche to Ayn Rand 3. A Strange Faith in Science Evolution vs ethics Racism and anti-Semitism in the Enlightenment Mesmerism, the first religion of science Science and the abolition of man Transhumanism as techno-monotheism 4. Atheism, Gnosticism and Modern Political Religion Millenarianism and Gnosticism in the western tradition Jan Bockelson's Münster: an early modern communist theocracy Jacobinism, the first modern political religion Bolshevism: millenarian hopes, Gnostic visions Bockelson, Hitler and the Nazis Evangelical liberalism 5. God-haters The Marquis de Sade and the dark divinity of Nature Ivan Karamazov hands back his ticket William Empson: God as a Belsen commandant 6. Atheism without Progress George Santayana, an atheist who loved religion Joseph Conrad and the godless sea 7. The Atheism of Silence The mystical atheism of Arthur Schopenhauer Two negative theologies: Benedict Spinoza and Lev Shestov Conclusion Living without belief or unbelief
Introduction: How to be an Atheist What religion is not 1. The New Atheism: A Nineteenth-century Orthodoxy The Grand Pontiff of Humanity Why science cannot dispel religion The true threat to monotheism New atheism and old illiberalism 2. Secular Humanism, a Sacred Relic Progress, a Christian myth Plato for the masses John Stuart Mill, the saint of rationalism Bertrand Russell, unwilling sceptic From Nietzsche to Ayn Rand 3. A Strange Faith in Science Evolution vs ethics Racism and anti-Semitism in the Enlightenment Mesmerism, the first religion of science Science and the abolition of man Transhumanism as techno-monotheism 4. Atheism, Gnosticism and Modern Political Religion Millenarianism and Gnosticism in the western tradition Jan Bockelson's Münster: an early modern communist theocracy Jacobinism, the first modern political religion Bolshevism: millenarian hopes, Gnostic visions Bockelson, Hitler and the Nazis Evangelical liberalism 5. God-haters The Marquis de Sade and the dark divinity of Nature Ivan Karamazov hands back his ticket William Empson: God as a Belsen commandant 6. Atheism without Progress George Santayana, an atheist who loved religion Joseph Conrad and the godless sea 7. The Atheism of Silence The mystical atheism of Arthur Schopenhauer Two negative theologies: Benedict Spinoza and Lev Shestov Conclusion Living without belief or unbelief
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