Seven Types of Atheism
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- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
2 April 2019
Summary
A meditation on the importance of atheism in the modern world - and its inadequacies and contradictions - by one of Britain’s leading philosophers.
“When you explore older atheisms, you will find some of your firmest convictions - secular or religious - are highly questionable. If this prospect disturbs you, what you are looking for may be freedom from thought.”
For a generation now, public debate has been corroded by a shrill, narrow derision of religion in the name of an oft…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141981109 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141981105 |
| Author: | John Gray |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 2 April 2019 |
| Weight: | 142g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 12mm |
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A highly readable, fascinating book that jerks the debate on religion versus atheism right out of its crusted rut into the light of serious intellectual scrutiny
A highly readable, fascinating book that jerks the debate on religion versus atheism right out of its crusted rut into the light of serious intellectual scrutiny * Observer *Pithy and revelatory – Christopher Bellaigue * Financial Times *Wonderful … the range, thoughtfulness and trenchant sense of Gray’s sweep across the centuries of thought is wholly exhilarating … one of the few books that I started to reread a couple of minutes after I’d finished it. – Melvyn Bragg * New Statesman *
About The Author
John Gray
John Gray’s major books include Straw Dogs, Black Mass and The Silence of Animals. A second edition of his essays, Gray’s Anatomy, was published in 2016. He now principally writes for the New Statesman.
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