I usually avoid postings that have little direct relevance to Henry Corbin, but a review essay by David Bentley Hart on the "new atheists" will be of interest to many readers of this blog. The essay,
Believe It or Not is a review of
50 Voices of Disbelief and comes from
First Things - it is a kind of "preview"of his recent book
Atheist Delusions. Hart's comparison of Dennett, Dawkins, Hitchins
et al. with Nietzsche is really nicely done. Hart is always entertaining. He is a powerful Orthodox Christian thinker and would be as dismissive and scornful of Corbin's docetism as he is of the flippant atheism he attacks here, but I generally learn something by reading his work and this short review is a nice counter to the nonsensical attacks on "religion" that have been most recently spawned by the horrors of violent fundamentalism.
Thanks for this. Hart's essay is wonderful. As a left-leaning Pagan I don't make a habit of reading First Things, but this is really good stuff!
ReplyDeleteHart is absolutely on the money in contrasting the "sheer banality" of the New Atheists, with the "force" and the "intellectual courage" of Nietzsche.
Yes. Thank you for the reference. Rather think that this sort of material is quite directly relevant to the life's work of Henry Corbin.
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