The God Delusion - Couverture rigide

Dawkins, Richard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0618680004 ISBN 13 : 9780618680009

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006

Synopsis

Book by Dawkins Richard

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Richard Dawkins in one of the country's most famous scientists. He is also one of our most outspoken critics of religion. In The God Delusion he presents his arguments for atheism. While this audiobook is unashamedly polemical, Dawkins adopts the rigorous approach of a scientist and applies it to the questions of religion, religious faith and the existence of God. Some of the issues he addresses include:

* A history of religious conflict.
* The impossibility of disproving the existence of God - something that has become a 'get out of jail free' argument for the inviolability of religion.
* Morality, where it becomes extra-religious; many moral changes and definition (e.g. women's rights, black civil rights) have occurred sometimes against the resistance of the religious community.
* The fact that in some countries religion remains an excuse for the subjugation of women's rights.
* The fact that by forcing religious belief on our children we are denying them intellectual freedom.
* Denial of evolution which is an impediment to intellectual progress.
* Science fulfilling the same psychological needs as religion.

This is a hard-hitting, accessible and powerfully thought-out examination of religion in the modern world. While the West is becoming increasingly secularized, the rise of religious fundamentalism in other parts of the word is dividing opinion. This is a timely and extremely controversial audiobook that will be required listening for anyone interested in this most emotional and fundamental of subjects.

Quatrième de couverture

A timely, impassioned and brilliantly argued polemic on atheism.

An entertaining, wildly informative, splendidly written polemic . . . we are elegantly cajoled, cleverly harangued into shedding ourselves of this superstitious nonsense that has bedevilled us since our first visit to Sunday school' Rod Liddle, Sunday Times

'A spirited and exhilarating read...Dawkins comes roaring forth in the full vigour of his powerful arguments'
Joan Bakewell, Guardian

'Passionate, clever, funny, uplifting and above all, desperately needed' Daily Express

'A wonderful book ... joyous, elegant, fair, engaging, and often very funny... informed throughout by an exhilarating breadth of reference and clarity of thought'
Michael Frayn

'Everyone should read it. Atheists will love Mr Dawkins's incisive logic and rapier wit' Economist

'Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion should be read by everyone from atheist to monk. If its merciless rationalism doesn't enrage you at some point, you probably aren't alive' Julian Barnes

'There is not a dull page in Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion, a book that makes me want to cheer its clarity, intelligence and truth-telling' Claire Tomalin

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0618680004
• ISBN 13: 9780618680009
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416