Author: Jean Kazez
Jean Kazez is the author of The Weight of Things: Philosophy and the Good Life (Blackwell, 2007). She teaches philosophy at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
Atheist ‘Guide’ Goes Down Wrong Path
The Atheist’s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions, by Alex Rosenberg (New York: W. W. Norton, 2011, ISBN 978-0-393-08023-0) 352 pp. Hardcover, $25.95. Post-millennial atheist writers seem to have moved from stage one to stage two. The nonexistence of God was dealt with by Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and others in the 2000s. Now …
The Varieties of Unreligious Experience
Philosophers without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life, edited by Louise Antony (Cambridge, UK: Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-01951713079) 336 pp. Cloth $28.00. It used to be so easy not believing in God. Now there are books atheists have to read, and books and more books. I thought I’d never read another …
People Don’t Die, Do They?
When my children were very young, I stayed away from discussing the subject of death with them. Nothing ever happened to make the topic inevitable: no pet died, no grandparent passed away, no president was shot. The word dead was used for speaking about nothing more alarming than dead batteries and dead leaves. Soon after our …