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The four horsemen : the discussion that sparked an atheist revolution

Title
The four horsemen : the discussion that sparked an atheist revolution / Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel C. Dennett, Christopher Hitchens ; foreword by Stephen Fry.
Author
Dawkins, Richard, 1941-
Publication
London : Bantam Press, 2019.

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Additional Authors
  • Harris, Sam, 1967-
  • Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement)
  • Hitchens, Christopher
Description
xix, 134 pages; 23 cm
Summary
Known as the ?four horsemen? of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging. Everything that was said as they agreed and disagreed with one another, interrogated ideas and exchanged insights ? about religion and atheism, science and sense ? speaks with urgency to our present age. Questions they asked of each other included: ?Is it ever possible to win a war of ideas? Is spirituality the preserve of the religious? Are there any truths you would rather not know? Would you want to see the end of faith?? The dialogue was recorded, and is now transcribed and presented here with new introductions from the surviving three horsemen. With a sparkling introduction from Stephen Fry, it makes essential reading for all their admirers and for anyone interested in exploring the tensions between faith and reason.
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Contents
Foreword / Stephen Fry -- The hubris of religion, the humility of science, and the intellectual and moral courage of atheism : science is often accused of arrograntly claiming to know everything, but the barb is capaciously wide of the mark / Richard Dawkins -- Letting the neighbours know : any who search the transciption of our discussion for either a monolithic shared creed or a contradiction suppressed for political reasons will come up empty-handed / Daniel C. Dennett -- In good company : is there a distinction between believing things for good reasons and believing them for bad ones? / Sam Harris -- The four horsemen : a discussion / Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel C. Dennett, Christopher Hitchens.
Call Number
JFD 19-2937
ISBN
  • 9780593080399
  • 0593080394
OCLC
1079350532
Author
Dawkins, Richard, 1941- author.
Title
The four horsemen : the discussion that sparked an atheist revolution / Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel C. Dennett, Christopher Hitchens ; foreword by Stephen Fry.
Publisher
London : Bantam Press, 2019.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Added Author
Harris, Sam, 1967- author.
Dennett, D. C. (Daniel Clement), author.
Hitchens, Christopher, author.
Other Form:
ebook version : 9781473559004
Research Call Number
JFD 19-2937
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