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Experiments in Mystical Atheism: Godless Epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and Beyond

Experiments in Mystical Atheism: Godless Epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and Beyond

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Atheism & AgnosticismReligion General General Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 022683526X
ISBN13: 9780226835266
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Oct 30 2024
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.34
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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