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Title

The portable atheist : essential readings for the nonbeliever / selected and with introductions by Christopher Hitchens.

Publication

[Cambridge, Mass.] : Da Capo, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hitchens, Christopher

Description

xxvi, 499 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Presents excerpts on the subject of religion from the writings of such notable non-believers as John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Richard Dawkins, and Salman Rushdie.

Alternative Title

Essential readings for the nonbeliever

Subjects

• Religion > Philosophy
• Godsdienst
• Atheïsme
• Atheism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction / Christopher Hitchens --- Lucretius, from De Rerum Natura (On the nature of things), Book I, translated by W. Hannaford Brown --- Omar Khayyám, from Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám : a paraphrase from several literal translations by Richard Le Gallienne --- Thomas Hobbes, Of religion, from Leviathan --- Benedict de Spinoza, Theological-political treatise --- David Hume, The natural history of religion; Of miracles --- James Boswell, An account of my last interview with David Hume, Esq. --- Percy Bysshe Shelley, A refutation of deism --- John Stuart Mill, Moral influences in my early youth, from Autobiography --- Karl Marx, Contribution to the critique of Hegel's Philosophy of right --- George Elliot, Evangelical teaching --- Charles Darwin, Autobiography --- Leslie Stephen, An agnostic's apology --- Analote France, Miracle --- Mark Twain, Thoughts of God, from Fables of man; Bible teaching and religious practice, from Europe and elsewhere and A pen warmed up in Hell ---^
• Joseph Conrad, Author's note to The shadow line --- Thomas Hardy, God's funeral --- Emma Goldman, The philosophy of atheism --- H.P. Lovecraft, A letter on religion --- Carl Van Doren, Why I am an unbeliever --- H.L. Mencken, Memorial service --- Sigmund Freud, from The future of an illusion, translated and edited by James Strachey --- Albert Einstein, Selected writings on religion --- George Orwell, from A clergyman's daughter --- John Betjeman, In Westminster Abbey --- Chapman Cohen, Monism and religion; An old story --- Bettrand Russel, An outline of intellectual rubbish --- Philip Larkin, Aubade; Church going --- Martin Gardner, The wandering Jew and the Second Coming --- Carl Sagan, The demon-haunted world; The God hypothesis --- John Updike, from Roger's version --- J.L. Mackie, Conclusions and implications, from The miracle of theism : arguments for and against the existence of God --- Michael Shermer, Genesis revisited : a scientific creation story ---^
• A.J. Ayer, That undiscovered country --- Daniel C. Dennett, Thank goodness! --- Charles Templeton, from A farewell to God, A personal word; Questions to ask yourself --- Richard Dawkins, Why there almost certainly is no God; Gerin oil; Atheists for Jesus --- Victor Stenger, from God : the failed hypothesis, Cosmic evidence --- Daniel C. Dennett, A working definition of religion, from "Breaking which spell?" --- Elizabeth Anderson, If God is dead, is everything permitted? -- Penn Jillette, There is no God --- Ian McEwan, End of the world blues --- Steven Weinberg, What about God? from Dreams of a final theory --- Salman Rushdie, "Imagine there's no Heaven" : a letter to the six billionth world citizen --- Ibn Warraq, The Koran; The totalitarian nature of Islam --- Sam Harris, In the shadow of God, from The end of faith --- A.C. Grayling, Can an atheist be a fundamentalist? from Against all gods --- Ayaan Hirsi Ali, How (and why) I became an infidel.

ISBN

• 9780306816086 (pbk.)
• 0306816083 (pbk.)

OCLC

156811900

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library