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The Experience of Atheism: Phenomenology, Metaphysics and Religion (Paperback)
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The Experience of Atheism: Phenomenology, Metaphysics and Religion (Paperback)
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Religious and atheistic belief are presented anew in a volume of
essays from leading phenomenologists in both France and the UK.
Atheism, often presented as the negation of religious belief, is
here engaged with from a phenomenologically informed notion of
experience. The focus on experience, sparks new debates in readings
of belief, faith and atheism as they relate to and complicate each
other. What unites the contributors is their relationship to
phenomenology as it has developed in France in the wake of
Heidegger and Husserl. Leading French intellectuals from this
context, Jean-Luc Nancy, Quentin Meillassoux, and Catherine
Malabou, amongst others, contribute arresting ideas on atheistic
faith, the death of God, and anarchic faith, opening up new areas
of understanding in a field whose parameters and core concepts are
ever shifting. Revealing the extent to which religious and
atheistic belief must be seen to influence, and on a fundamental
level, to co-create one another, the pluralistic society in which
religious belief is counted as one option amongst many is given
primacy. The fact that religious faith has become not only optional
but also, in many contexts, strangely alienated from society,
deeply modifies the experience of the believer as much as that of
the non-believer. A focus on 'experience', over and above 'belief',
moves us towards a mode of experiential knowledge which refuses to
privilege the atheistic believer and deride the reality of
religious belief.
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