The Problem with God: Why Atheists, True Believers, and Even Agnostics Must All Be Wrong - Hardcover

Steinberger, Peter

 
9780231163545: The Problem with God: Why Atheists, True Believers, and Even Agnostics Must All Be Wrong
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0231163541 ISBN 13: 9780231163545
Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Whether people praise, worship, criticize, or reject God, they all presuppose at least a rough notion of what it means to talk about God. Turning the certainty of this assumption on its head, a respected educator and humanist shows that when we talk about God, we are in fact talking about nothing at all-there is literally no such idea-and so all of the arguments we hear from atheists, true believers, and agnostics are and will always be empty and self-defeating. Peter J. Steinberger's commonsense account is by no means disheartening or upsetting, leaving readers without anything meaningful to hold on to. To the contrary, he demonstrates how impossible it is for the common world of ordinary experience to be all there is. With patience, clarity, and good humor, Steinberger helps readers think critically and constructively about various presuppositions and modes of being in the world. By coming to grips with our own deep-seated beliefs, we can understand how traditional ways asserting, denying, or even just wondering about God's existence prevent us from seeing the truth-which, it turns out, is far more interesting and encouraging than anyone would have thought.

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About the Author

Peter J. Steinberger is the Robert H. and Blanche Day Ellis Professor of Political Science and Humanities at Reed College, where he also served as dean of the faculty from 1997 to 2010. He is the author of The Idea of the State, The Concept of Political Judgment, Logic and Politics: Hegel's Philosophy of Right, and Ideology and the Urban Crisis, and his essays have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, and other general interest publications.

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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0231163541
ISBN 13 
9780231163545
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
192

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