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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 ent

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Author

Peter Watson

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781476754314

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Fiction, Religion, Science

Rating

3.79 / 5 (164 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13