Experiments in Mystical Atheism (eBook)

Godless Epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and Beyond

Brook Ziporyn (Autor)

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2024
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-83525-9 (ISBN)

Infos

A new approach to the theism-scientism divide rooted in a deeper form of atheism. Western philosophy is stuck in an irresolvable conflict between two approaches to the spiritual malaise of our times: either we need more God (the turn to religion ) or less religion (the New Atheism). In this book, Brook Ziporyn proposes an alternative that avoids both totalizing theomania and atomizing reductionism. What we need, he argues, is a deeper, more thoroughgoing, even religious rejection of God: an affirmative atheism without either a creator to provide meaning or finite creatures in need of it a mystical atheism.In the legacies of Daoism and Buddhism as well as Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Bataille, Ziporyn discovers a critique of theism that develops into a new, positive sensibility at once deeply atheist and richly religious. Experiments in Mystical Atheism argues that these godless epiphanies hold the key to renewing philosophy today.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.10.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• ISBN-10: 0-226-83525-1 / 0226835251
• ISBN-13: 978-0-226-83525-9 / 9780226835259