TY  - BOOK
AU  - Connolly,William
AU  - Costa,Paolo
AU  - Kitcher,Philip
AU  - Levine,George
AU  - Phillips,Adam
AU  - Richards,Robert
AU  - Robbins,Bruce
AU  - Stott,Rebecca
AU  - Taylor,Charles
AU  - Waal,Frans
AU  - Wilson,David
TI  - The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now 
SN  - 9781400838424
AV  - BL2747.8 
U1  - 211.6 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Secularism
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Religious
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - "idianism
KW  - Augustine
KW  - Blumenberg, Hans
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Copernicus
KW  - Freud, Sigmund
KW  - Harris, Sam
KW  - Kitcher, Phillip
KW  - Kundera, Milan
KW  - Lucretius
KW  - Nussbaum, Martha
KW  - altruism
KW  - anthropology
KW  - atheism
KW  - biology
KW  - bird watching
KW  - capitalism
KW  - consolation
KW  - curiosity
KW  - democracy
KW  - disenchantment
KW  - dualism
KW  - economics
KW  - enchantment
KW  - epistemology
KW  - evolution
KW  - good and evil
KW  - gratitude
KW  - helplessness
KW  - hermeneutics
KW  - homelessness
KW  - induction
KW  - intelligent design
KW  - literature
KW  - loveliness
KW  - materialism
KW  - meaninglessness
KW  - morality
KW  - natural selection
KW  - naturalism
KW  - objectivism
KW  - politics
KW  - profanity
KW  - psychology
KW  - rationalization
KW  - reductionism
KW  - reenchantment
KW  - representation
KW  - science
KW  - secularism
KW  - social imaginary
KW  - sympathy
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Contributors --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Contributor --; 1. Challenges for Secularism --; 2. Disenchantment—Reenchantment --; 3. Enchantment? No, Thank You! --; 4. Shock Therapy, Dramatization, and Practical Wisdom --; 5. Freud’s Helplessness --; 6. A Secular Wonder --; 7. Prehuman Foundations of Morality --; 8. The Truth Is Sacred --; 9. Darwinian Enchantment --; 10. The Wetfooted Understory: Darwinian Immersions --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Can secularism offer us moral, aesthetic, and spiritual satisfaction? Or does the secular view simply affirm a dog-eat-dog universe? At a time when the issues of religion, evolution, atheism, fundamentalism, Darwin, and science fill headlines and invoke controversy, The Joy of Secularism provides a balanced and thoughtful approach for understanding an enlightened, sympathetic, and relevant secularism for our lives today. Bringing together distinguished historians, philosophers, scientists, and writers, this book shows that secularism is not a mere denial of religion. Rather, this positive and necessary condition presents a vision of a natural and difficult world--without miracles or supernatural interventions--that is far richer and more satisfying than the religious one beyond. From various perspectives--philosophy, evolutionary biology, primate study, Darwinian thinking, poetry, and even bird-watching--the essays in this collection examine the wealth of possibilities that secularism offers for achieving a condition of fullness. Factoring in historical contexts, and ethical and emotional challenges, the contributors make an honest and heartfelt yet rigorous case for the secular view by focusing attention on aspects of ordinary life normally associated with religion, such as the desire for meaning, justice, spirituality, and wonder. Demonstrating that a world of secular enchantment is a place worth living in, The Joy of Secularism takes a new and liberating look at a valuable and complex subject. The contributors are William Connolly, Paolo Costa, Frans de Waal, Philip Kitcher, George Levine, Adam Phillips, Robert Richards, Bruce Robbins, Rebecca Stott, Charles Taylor, and David Sloan Wilson
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400838424?locatt=mode:legacy
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