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Cargando... The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God (edición 2014)por Peter Watson (Autor)
Información de la obraLa Edad de la nada. El mundo después de la muerte de Dios por Peter Watson
  
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Science uncovers new, often counter-intuitive facts, while as Peter Watson puts it in his new book The Age of Nothing: How we have sought to live since the death of God, literature and poetry “clarify … thoughts we have almost had, that we wish we had had.”  “The Age of Atheists” frequently makes for an exhilarating ride through the cerebra of disparate men (few women feature here) who have tried to fashion a Godless yet nonetheless ordered and sustaining worldview. It is a topical book, to be sure, but also one that will stand the test of time as a masterful account of its subject. The Age of Atheists will likely stay confined to certain intellectual circles: The casual philosopher, the dogmatic non-believer, the coffee-table book collector. But insofar as its argument represents a broader pathology in contemporary conversations about belief, this book matters. Most people form their beliefs and live their lives somewhere in the middle of the so-called "culture divide" that outspoken atheists and believers shout across. The more these shouters shout, the more public discourse veers away from the subtle struggle of the average person's attempt to be human. In many parts of the world at present, there is no sign of religion dying away: quite the reverse. Yet Watson is not mistaken in thinking that throughout much of the 20th century “the death of God” was a cultural fact, and he astutely follows up the various ways in which the Nietzschean imperative – the need to construct a system of values that does not rely on any form of transcendental belief – shaped thinking in many fields.  A history of modern atheism—what did Voltaire say to Diderot? what did Comte mean to Mill? who was Madalyn Murray O’Hair, anyway?—would be nice to have. The British popular historian Peter Watson’s “The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God” (Simon & Schuster) could have been that book, but it isn’t. ... The problem is that godlessness as a felt condition is very different from atheism as an articulate movement. Watson doesn’t distinguish clearly, or at all, between the two, and so his book manages to feel at once breathless and long-winded—much too rushed in its parts and too diffuse as a whole. Even his chronology of ever-growing disbelief seems off. Distinciones
Peter Watson, autor de dos grandes obras como son Ideas y Una historia intelectual del siglo XX, completa ahora este panorama con una nueva e importante dimensión: un análisis de cómo ha evolucionado el mundo de las creencias y los valores desde que en 1882 Nietzsche proclamó la “muerte de Dios”. Basándose en su extraordinario conocimiento del pensamiento, la literatura y el arte, Watson nos conduce en un fascinante recorrido por ciento treinta años de historia intelectual, en el que no sólo explora la aportación individual de artistas, científicos, filósofos y pensadores, sino que explora fenómenos colectivos como el auge del ocultismo en vísperas de la primera guerra mundial, el “ateísmo científico” en la Rusia soviética, las “religiones de la sangre” de la Alemania nazi, la difusión de la psicodelia en los años sesenta o la violencia religiosa de nuestros días. Quienes se apasionaron con Una historia intelectual del siglo XX volverán a encontrar aquí al mejor Watson. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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