Atheism Revisited

Atheism Revisited is a collection of essays that explore the multifaceted nature of atheism. Starting from the notion that today's atheism is shaped by the defining processes of Modernity-such as secularization and the breakup of science, philosophy, and theology-the first part of the book undertakes a thorough scrutiny of Modern atheisms, from Spinoza and Hobbes to Marx and Nietzsche. The second part of the book seeks to draw practical conclusions from this scrutiny and answer the questions: what is the state of atheism today? What is the role of an atheist in a world affected by religious fundamentalisms? What should the relationship between atheists and religious people look like?

The wide scope of the book allows readers to see atheism as a central concern of many intellectual movements, from Marxism and French Theory to post-secularism and the reevaluation of Modernity, and to understand atheism as a focal point of the most important contemporary philosophical debates.

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Szymon Wróbel is a full professor in the Faculty of Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw and the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland.

Krzysztof Skonieczny is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw, Poland.

Klappentext

Atheism Revisited is a collection of essays that explore the multifaceted nature of atheism. Starting from the notion that today's atheism is shaped by the defining processes of Modernitysuch as secularization and the breakup of science, philosophy, and theologythe first part of the book undertakes a thorough scrutiny of Modern atheisms, from Spinoza and Hobbes to Marx and Nietzsche. The second part of the book seeks to draw practical conclusions from this scrutiny and answer the questions: what is the state of atheism today? What is the role of an atheist in a world affected by religious fundamentalisms? What should the relationship between atheists and religious people look like?

The wide scope of the book allows readers to see atheism as a central concern of many intellectual movements, from Marxism and French Theory to post-secularism and the reevaluation of Modernity, and to understand atheism as a focal point of the most important contemporary philosophical debates.

Inhalt

1. Introduction. Szymon Wróbel, Krzysztof Skonieczny Introduction to Atheism

Part One. Rethinking Modernity

2. Jacek Dobrowolski Modernity and Secularism

3. Mateusz Janik Early Modern European Atheism with Chinese Characteristics First Jesuit Descriptions of Neo-Confucianism and their Spinozist Reception

4. Ivan Dimitrijevi Beyond the enmity: the mechanization of nature and the moderate political atheism

5. Krzysztof Ziarek Heidegger on Technics, Power, and the Planetary

6. Andrzej Gniazdowski Political Significance of Atheism. Karl Marx' Idea of the Positive Abolition of Religion

7. Agata Tymczyszyn Nietzsche, Saint Paul and the Will of Life 8. Krzysztof Skonieczny We Are Still Pious. Nietzsche and the Hard Problem of Atheism

9. Adam Lipszyc The Visible Absence of Color: Herman Melville's Troubled Atheism

Part Two. Inventing New Modes of Life

10. Gregg Lambert Philosophical 'Fundamentalism' Today. On Return Statements: The Return of Religion in Contemporary Philosophy (EUP, 2016)

11. Íñigo Ongay de Felipe New (and old) atheism(s) reconsidered

12. H. Chris Ransford Reason Is Not Winning: A Proposed Blueprint for Moving Forward

13. Szymon Wróbel From Atheism of the Concept Towards Atheism Without the Concept

14. Julian Baggini Towards a Coalition of the Reasonable: Beyond Atheism v Religion