In Bad Faith

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Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2011-10-25
Publisher(s): Prometheus Books
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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

Prefacep. 7
Introductionp. 13
Atheism: Young Hegelian Stylep. 41
A Social Thingp. 65
The Tenacity of an Illusionp. 91
Beyond God and Evilp. 123
The Liberal Turnp. 161
A Precarious Leftp. 185
Conclusionp. 209
Notesp. 213
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