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Suspicion and Faith: The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism
While skepticism directs its critique to the truth or evidential basis of belief, suspicion asks two different, intimately intertwined questions: what are the motives that lead to this belief? and what function does it play, what work does it do for the individuals and communities that adopt it? What suspicion suspects is that the survival value of religious beliefs depends on satisfying desires and interests that the believing soul and the believing community are not eager to acknowledge because they violate the values they profess, as when, for example, talk about justice is a mask for deep-seated resentment and the desire for revenge. For this reason, the hermeneutics of suspicion is a theory, or group of theories, of self-deception: ideology critique in Marx, genealogy in Nietzsche, and psychoanalysis in Freud.
Book Details
- Publisher: Fordham University Press
- Publish Date: Sep 1st, 1998
- Pages: 296
- Language: English
- Edition: Revised - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 5.90in - 1.00in - 1.05lb
- EAN: 9780823218769
- Categories: • Christianity - History
About the Author
Westphal, Merold: - Merold Westphal is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University and author of Suspicion and Faith: The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism.
Praise for this book
An illuminating and powerful reading of three of the most important contemporary professedly antireligious thinkers... stinging critiques of Freud, Marx, and Nietzsche.---C. Stephen Evans, Society of Christian Philosophers