The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages—with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a splendidly godless universe in this first-ever gathering of the influential voices—past and present—that have shaped his side of the current (and raging) God/no-god debate. With Hitchens as your erudite and witty guide, you'll be led through a wealth of philosophy, literature, and scientific inquiry, including generous portions of the words of Lucretius, Benedict de Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Mark Twain, George Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Emma Goldman, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and many others well-known and lesser known. And they’re all set in context and commented upon as only Christopher Hitchens—“political and literary j...
Author: Hitchens Christopher, Lucretius, Khayyám Omar, Hobbes Thomas, De Spinoza Benedict, Hume David, Boswell James, Shelley Percy Bysshe, Mill John Stuart, Marx Karl, Eliot George, Darwin Charles, Stephen Leslie, France Anatole, Twain Mark, Conrad Joseph, Hardy Thomas, Goldman Emma, Lovecraft Howard Phillips, Van Doren Carl, Mencken Henry Louis, Freud Sigmund, Einstein Albert, Orwell George, Betjeman John, Cohen Chapman, Russell Bertrand, Larkin Philip, Gardner Martin, Sagan Carl, Updike John, Mackie J. L., Shermer Michael, Ayer Alfred J., Dennett Daniel C., Templeton Charles, Dawkins Richard, Stenger Victor, Anderson Elizabeth, Jillette Penn, McEwan Ian, Weinberg Steven, Rushdie Salman, Warraq Ibn, Harris Sam, Grayling Anthony C., Ali Ayaan Hirsi
ISBN: 9780306816086
Year of publication: 2007
Genre: Religious studies, Philosophy, Publicism
Number of pages: 765
Reading time: 12 h. 45 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
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