In the 21st century, religion is making a comeback, bringing in its wake a resurgence of fundamentalism. In Defense of Atheism demonstrates that organized religion is motivated by worldly, historical, and political power and exposes some uncomfortable truths. If Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God, Onfray states that not only is God still very much alive but increasingly controlled by fundamentalists who pose a danger to the human race. Persuasively argued, this book is a radical call for sanity in an age of religious unreason.

In Defense of Atheism: The Case Against Christianity Judaism And Islam

ONFRAY, MICHEL

Religion & Spirituality

Penguin Canada

Michael Onfray passionately defends the potential of hedonism to resolve the dislocations and disconnections of our melancholy age. In a sweeping survey of history's engagement with and rejection of the body, he exposes the sterile conventions that prevent us from realizing a more immediate, ethical, and embodied life. He then lays the groundwork for both a radical and constructive politics of the body that adds to debates over morality, equality, sexual relations, and social engagement, demonstrating how philosophy, and not just modern scientism, can contribute to a humanistic ethics. Onfray attacks Platonic idealism and its manifestation in Judaic, Christian, and Islamic belief. He warns of the lure of attachment to the purportedly eternal, immutable truths of idealism, which detracts from the immediacy of the world and our bodily existence. Insisting that philosophy is a practice that operates in a real, material space, Onfray enlists Epicurus and Democritus to undermine idealist and theological metaphysics; Nietzsche, Bentham, and Mill to dismantle idealist ethics; and Palante and Bourdieu to collapse crypto-fascist neoliberalism. In their place, he constructs a positive, hedonistic ethics that enlarges on the work of the New Atheists to promote a joyful approach to our lives in this, our only, world.

A Hedonist Manifesto: The Power to Exist (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Columbia University Press

A Hedonist Manifesto: The Power to Exist

A provocative new study offers a controversial argument against the world's three major monotheistic religions and the role of religious fundamentalism in promoting intolerance, the next "life" to the detriment of the present, and submission to authority and condemns their contempt for reason, individual freedom, sexuality and pleasure, and women in general.

Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

Religious Studies

Arcade Publishing

A provocative new study offers a controversial argument against the world's three major monotheistic religions and the role of religious fundamentalism in promoting intolerance, the next "life" to the detriment of the present, and submission to authority and condemns their contempt for reason, individual freedom, sexuality and pleasure, and women in general. Reprint.

Atheism

“A strong case for removing all the remnants of Judeo-Christian ideology from our secular culture.”—Freedom from Religion Foundation. This hugely controversial work demonstrates convincingly how the world’s three major monotheistic religions—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—have attempted to suppress knowledge, science, pleasure, and desire, condemning nonbelievers often to death. Not since Nietzsche has a work so groundbreaking and explosive questioned the role of the world’s three major monotheistic religions. If Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God, Onfray insists that not only is God still very much alive but also increasingly controlled by fundamentalists who pose a danger to the nature of human morality. Documenting the ravages of religious intolerance over the centuries, the author makes a strong case against the three religions for their obsession with purity and their contempt for reason and intelligence, individual freedom, desire, and the human body, as well as their disdain for women, sexuality, and pleasure. In their place, all three demand faith and belief, obedience and submission, and extolling the “next life” to the detriment of the here and now. Tightly argued, this is a work that is sure to stir debate on the role of religion in American society—and politics.

Arcade

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Appetites for Thought offers up a delectable intellectual challenge: can we better understand the concepts of philosophers from their culinary choices? Guiding us around the philosopher’s banquet table with erudition, wit, and irreverence, Michel Onfray offers surprising insights on foods ranging from fillet of cod to barley soup, from sausage to wine and coffee. Tracing the edible obsessions of philosophers from Diogenes to Sartre, Onfray considers how their ideas relate to their diets. Would Diogenes have been an opponent of civilization without his taste for raw octopus? Would Rousseau have been such a proponent of frugality if his daily menu had included something more than dairy products? Onfray offers a perfectly Kantian critique of the nose and palate, since “the idea obtained from them is more a representation of enjoyment than cognition of the external object.” He exposes Nietzsche’s grumpiness—really, Nietzsche grumpy?—about bad cooks and the retardation of human evolution, and he explores Sartre’s surrealist repulsion by shellfish because they are “food buried in an object, and you have to pry them out.” A fun romp through the culinary likes and dislikes of our most famous thinkers, Appetites for Thought will intrigue, provoke, and entertain, and it might also make you ponder a bite to eat.

Appetites for Thought: Philosophers and Food

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Reaktion Books

In Defence of Atheism: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism and Islam

Serpent's Tail

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In Defense of Atheism: The Case Against Christianity Judaism And Islam

A Hedonist Manifesto: The Power to Exist (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)

A Hedonist Manifesto: The Power to Exist

Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

Appetites for Thought: Philosophers and Food

In Defence of Atheism: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism and Islam