Religious Atheism: Twelve Philosophical Apostles
Erik Meganck, "Religious Atheism: Twelve Philosophical Apostles "
English | ISBN: 1438495242 | 2023 | 240 pages | EPUB, PDF | 591 KB + 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1438495242 | 2023 | 240 pages | EPUB, PDF | 591 KB + 2 MB
Feuerbach, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, Russell, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Sartre, Levinas, Lyotard, Derrida. Why were these twelve so-called atheist heavyweights unable to wipe God off the table once and for all? Perhaps they did not intend to. Perhaps their atheism was directed at something other than God and religion. In that case, suggests Erik Meganck, we should look for a more fertile philosophical meaning of atheism to distinguish it from the shallow, more popular definitions of the term. Toward this aim, Meganck offers a rereading of the twelve apostles in this book, who are, he demonstrates, more religious than public opinion often holds. God and religion do not disappear in their work, but each of them tears down a pillar from the grand edifice that is traditional metaphysics. Modern thought has gradually dismantled philosophical and theological systems-"theisms"-which means that we must look for God in the "
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