Read The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God Online
Authors: Peter Watson
3
. George Levine (ed.),
The Joy of Secularism: Eleven Essays for How We Live Now
, Princeton and London: Princeton University Press, 2011, p. 4.
4
. John Gray,
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
, London: Granta Books, 2002, p. 74.
5
. Gordon Graham,
The Re-enchantment of the World: Art versus Religion
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 82–85. Simon Blackburn,
Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy,
Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, p. 298.
6
. Christopher Hitchens,
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
, New York: Twelve, 2007.
7
. Gray, op
.
cit., p. 43.
8
. Jonathan Lear,
Happiness, Death and the Remainder of Life
, Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2000, p. 138.
9
. Cynthia Ozick,
The Din in Our Head
, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006, ch. 14.
10
. Seamus Heaney,
The Government of the Tongue
, London: Faber and Faber, 1988, p. 189.
11
. Rebecca Stott, “The Webfooted Understorey: Darwinian Immersions,” in Levine (ed.),
The Joy of Secularism
, pp. 216–21.
12
. Gray, op
.
cit., p. 198.
13
. Richard Kearney,
Anatheism (Returning to God After God)
, New York: Columbia University Press, 2010, pp. 73, 80, 180.
Index
absolute/Absolute,
72
,
274
,
338
,
456
.
See also
specific person’s views
Abstract Expressionism,
394
,
395
,
397
–400,
402
action:
Abstract Expressionism and,
399
beliefs as rules for,
57
change and,
400
existentialists and,
340
political,
439
–40
Adler, Viktor,
33
,
241
,
352
,
370
,
371
,
438
–39
Adorno, Theodor,
144
,
372
,
378
–79
aesthetics: counterculture and,
425
–27
afterlife,
178
,
225
,
229
–30,
274
,
277
,
283
,
316
–17,
318
–19,
472
,
484
,
550
agape
(law of love),
367
,
527
–28n
Agassiz Club.
See
Metaphysical Club “Saturday Club”
Aiken, Conrad,
66
alienation,
97
,
202
–3,
365
,
442
,
451
,
499
Allen, Frederick Lewis,
241
Altizer, Thomas,
383
–84
American Foundation of Religion and Psychiatry (AFRP),
360
,
362
American Society for Psychical Research,
178
“the American way,” 363
Anderson, Sherwood,
238
–39,
240
,
241
,
242
,
243
,
543
Andreas, Friedrich Carl,
227
androgynous man,
268
Anouilh, Jean,
339
anti-Semitism.
See
Jews/Judaism
anxiety,
86
,
87
,
119
,
242
,
308
,
436
–40,
534
“The Apostles” (Cambridge Conversazione Society),
77
–78
“archaic man”: Jung’s views about,
286
archetypes: Jung’s theory of,
286
,
288
–89,
290
,
380
,
419
Arendt, Hannah,
58
n,
192
,
226
,
440
Aristotle,
60
,
63
,
214
,
280
,
501
,
502
art/artists:
aim/purpose of,
183
,
209
,
236
,
263
,
504
,
537
and art for art’s sake,
151
,
153
beauty and,
456
biological origin of,
483
–84
collective,
118
counterculture and,
414
as dialogue,
456
education and,
400
as escape from time,
503
–5
as existential,
75
expanded community of,
124
as experience,
400
as explaining change,
90
innovation in,
111
art/artists (
continued
)
knowledge and,
88
as making a difference,
91
meaning of,
392
minimalist,
391
–93
mysticism and,
484
nature in,
121
Nazis’ looting of,
318
“new spirit” in,
122
–24
phenomenology and,
73
postmodernism and,
499
progression of,
456
reality and,
124
and realms of life,
554
as replacement for religion,
450
science compared with,
455
spiritual in,
180
–84
theothanatology and,
383
truth and,
456
twentieth-century,
124
See also
specific person’s views or type of art
Aschheim, Steven,
24
,
33
,
38
,
39
,
48
–49,
188
Ascona, Switzerland,
40
–45,
46
,
47
,
48
,
401
atheism/atheists:
as alternative religion,
214
–17
increase in,
21
as intellectually fulfilled,
542
militant,
7
–8,
204
,
215
,
216
,
217
,
219
psychological causes of,
354
–55
traditional,
336
during World War II,
219
See also
specific person’s views or topic
atomic bomb,
330
,
380
,
381
,
388
,
450
,
451
Auden, W. H.,
83
,
89
,
176
,
177
,
291
,
458
,
459
–60,
463
,
464
,
539
Auschwitz,
330
,
331
,
372
,
374
,
375
,
377
,
378
,
379
authority,
86
,
92
,
154
,
239
,
258
,
260
,
363
,
365
,
366
,
391
,
457
,
476
,
484
autokinesis,
179
avant-garde,
39
–40,
118
,
122
–23,
128
Ayer, A. J.,
58
n,
273
,
274
,
275
–78
Baker, Carlos,
242
Bakunin, Mikhail,
211
Barrès, Maurice,
189
Barth, Karl,
57
n,
311
,
312
–13,
382
,
384
,
455
,
473
,
500
,
534
Bartók, Bela,
396
Bataille, Georges,
336
Baudelaire, Charles,
71
,
73
,
130
,
460
,
536
Baumeister, Roy F.,
17
–18
“beat” writing,
394
,
395
,
397
,
403
–6
beauty,
112
,
117
,
119
,
189
,
456
,
516
,
522
–24,
536
,
549
.
See also
specific person’s views
Beauvoir, Simone de,
334
,
339
,
340
,
367
Beckett, Samuel,
8
,
252
,
254
,
293
,
387
–91,
406
,
407
,
408
,
430
,
537
Behrens, Peter,
35
–36
being/Being,
337
,
350
,
385
,
414
,
458
,
536
–41,
542
.
See also
specific person’s views
belief/beliefs:
“bricolage,” 499–500,
501
evidence of,
514
faith differentiated from,
514
justification of,
62
over-,
59
postmodernism and,
499
–500
as public,
512
–16
ready-made,
499
as rules for action,
57
therapeutic approach and,
446
trust in,
197
Vienna Circle and,
274
See also
specific person’s views
Bellah, Robert,
533
Benbassa, Esther,
373
,
378
,
379
,
445
Benedict, Saint,
502
Benedict XVI (pope),
546
Benjamin, Walter,
233
Berdyaev, Nikolai,
208
Bergeinsamkeit
, Zarathustrian cult of,
36
–38
Berger, Peter,
9
–10,
13
–14,
21
,
445
Bergson, Henri,
75
–77,
88
,
95
,
99
,
101
,
123
,
124
,
142
,
170
,
189
,
426
,
534
Berry, Philippa,
499
Bertram, Ernst,
150
–51
Beveridge Report (1942),
333
“big crunch,” 493
biology,
161
,
272
,
472
,
481
,
483
–85,
488
.
See also
evolution
Bishop, Elizabeth,
551
–52
Bismarck, Otto von,
333
black magic,
169
Black Mountain College,
394
,
400
,
401
,
402
,
403
Blackburn, Simon,
539
Blake, William,
128
,
422
,
455
,
465
“blank spots”: humanitarian disasters as creating,
449
Blavatsky, Madame Helen,
167
–69,
181
,
182
,
183
,
280
“blood flag,” Nazi,
321
“blood and soil” concept,
313
,
317
,
319
,
323
Bloom, Harold,
293
,
406
–7,
408
,
465
,
515
,
533
Bloomsbury Group,
78
–79,
80
,
82
–83,
193
Blunden, Edmund,
195
–96
body,
268
,
340
–41,
387
,
394
,
395
–97,
398
,
400
–402,
404
,
414
.
See also
mind-body
Boehme, Jacob,
169
Boethius,
295
Bogdanov, Aleksandr,
205
,
206
,
208
–9,
210
,
213
Bohlmann, Otto,
163
–64
Bolsheviks:
Nietzsche’s influence on,
205
–14
See also
communism; Marxism;
specific person’s views