Tradition · Late 2000s Anglosphere media moment: scientific popularizers, philosophers, journalists—clustered brand more than church, with lasting institutional fog. 2 essays
New Atheism
post-9/11 public firefight—bestsellers, debate stages, naturalism confident in microphone
“New Atheism” named a tone as much as a thesis: religion dangerous, argument urgent, ridicule sometimes a tactic. It popularized critiques of design arguments and scriptural violence while drawing scorn for under-reading history and anthropology.
Dennett urged breaking spells with comparative curiosity; critics inside atheism pushed for secular ritual needs New Atheism undershot.
Outdeus uses New Atheism as modern scaffolding—secularization’s argumentative edge, pluralism met with conflict, divine hiddenness rephrased as evidential calm—without mistaking a media wave for all unbelieving life.
- Concepts
- Secularization ·Religious pluralism ·Cosmological argument ·Myth as truth ·Divine hiddenness
- Figures
- Daniel Dennett ·Friedrich Nietzsche ·Karen Armstrong ·William James ·Plato
Essays · 2 in total