The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God - Couverture souple

Watson, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1476754322 ISBN 13 : 9781476754321

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 2014

Synopsis

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).

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Peter Watson is a journalist, television presenter and historian of ideas. He was a senior editor of the Sunday Times, New York correspondent of The Times and a columnist for the Observer. He has written for multiple publications, including the New York Times and Spectator. His books, which have been translated into more than 25 languages, include Ideas: A History from Fire to Freud, The German Genius, The French Mind and Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1476754322
• ISBN 13: 9781476754321
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 640
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Simon & Schuster; casetta@mondadori.it; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italie