Atheism Revisited
Rethinking Modernity and Inventing New Modes of Life
Editors: Wróbel, Szymon, Skonieczny, Krzysztof (Eds.)
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- Explores the relationship between atheism and modernity
- Investigates contemporary questions related to atheism
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction to Atheism
Pages 1-14
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Modernity and Secularism
Pages 17-31
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Early Modern European Atheism with Chinese Characteristics: First Jesuit Descriptions of Neo-Confucianism and Their Spinozist Reception
Pages 33-44
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Beyond the Enmity: The Mechanization of Nature and the Moderate Political Atheism
Pages 45-64
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Heidegger on Technics, Power, and the Planetary
Pages 65-80
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Atheism Revisited
- Book Subtitle
- Rethinking Modernity and Inventing New Modes of Life
- Editors
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- Szymon Wróbel
- Krzysztof Skonieczny
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-34368-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-34368-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-34367-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 240
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