Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
296
Language
English
Published
Mar 10, 2013
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN-10
0748677267
ISBN-13
9780748677269
Description
Drawing primarily on the work of Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy, plus Quentin Meillassoux and Slavoj Žižek, Watkin explores the theme of atheism through the ideas of the death of God and nihilism, and probes the limits of any 'atheistic politics'. He argues that rigorous atheism is elusive, and that Continental thought, even in its most stridently atheistic guises, has yet fully come to terms with the death of God.
Genres
Philosophy
Contemporary