Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. INTRODUCTION The Genealogy of Atheism 1
4. 1 ATHEISM AND SCIENCE On Einstein’s “Cosmic Religious Sense” 19
5. 2 ATHEISM AND SOCIETY Hume’s Prefiguration of Rorty 41
6. 3 ATHEISM AND POWER Nietzsche, Nominalism, and the Reductive Spirit 65
7. 4 ATHEISM AND ETHICS Recovering the Link between Truth and Transformation 85
8. 5 ATHEISM AND METAPHYSICS A Problem of Apophatic Theology 105
9. 6 ATHEISM AND POLITICS Abandonment, Absence, and the Empty Throne 129
10. 7 ATHEISM AND LITERATURE Living without God in Dante’s Comedy 155
11. 8 ATHEISM AND THE AFFIRMATION OF LIFE Dostoevsky’s Response to Russian Nihilism 175
12. AFTERWORD Th e Drama of Atheism 199
13. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 203
14. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 205
15. INDEX 209