{"product_id":"the-age-of-atheists-how-we-have-sought-to-live-since-the-death-of-god-9781476754321","title":"The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of 2014 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom one of England's most distinguished intellectual historians comes \"an exhilarating ride...that will stand the test of time as a masterful account of\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e) one of the West's most important intellectual movements: Atheism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA captivating story of contest, failure, and success, \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Atheists \u003c\/i\u003esweeps 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 enthusiasm. Watson explains how atheism has evolved and reveals that the greatest works of art and literature, of science and philosophy of the last century can be traced to the rise of secularism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Nietzsche to Daniel Dennett, Watson's stirring intellectual history manages to take the revolutionary ideas and big questions of these great minds and movements and explain them, making the connections and concepts simple without being simplistic. \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Atheists \u003c\/i\u003eis \"highly readable and immensely wide-ranging...For anybody who has wondered about the meaning of life...an enthralling and mind-expanding experience\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWatson, Peter:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Peter Watson is an intellectual historian, journalist, and the author of thirteen books, including \u003ci\u003eConvergence\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eIdeas: A History; The Age of Atheists; The German Genius\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Medici Conspiracy\u003c\/i\u003e; and\u003ci\u003e The Great Divide\u003c\/i\u003e. He has written for \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times, The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eSpectator. \u003c\/i\u003eHe lives in London.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50527634161938,"sku":"9781476754321","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_35e3633a-174e-44cc-80f1-ea56c22e632c.jpg?v=1731309648","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-age-of-atheists-how-we-have-sought-to-live-since-the-death-of-god-9781476754321","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}