In Bad Faith

by Levine, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9781616144708
• ISBN10: 161614470X
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2011-10-25
• Publisher: Prometheus Books

Summary

Ludwig Feuerbach, Emile Durkheim, Sigmund Freud, and Friedrich Nietzsche wondered, implicitly, why belief in God persists. In this book, Levine reflects on the explanations proffered by these authors and on their very different explanatory strategies.

Author Biography

Andrew Levine is the author of many books and articles most recently Political Keywords, The American Ideology, and A Future for Marxism? He was, for many years, professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and, more recently, research professor in philosophy at the University of Maryland-College Park. He is currently a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Introduction	p. 13
Atheism: Young Hegelian Style	p. 41
A Social Thing	p. 65
The Tenacity of an Illusion	p. 91
Beyond God and Evil	p. 123
The Liberal Turn	p. 161
A Precarious Left	p. 185
Conclusion	p. 209
Notes	p. 213
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