Staff Pick
Peter Watson’s monumental intellectual history covers atheism’s influence in dance, poetry, philosophy, theater, psychology, literature, and so on. Watson strikes me as a modern-day Diderot, and this work as his Encyclopedia (of atheism). Watson develops a subtle but ambient thesis on the atheistic life, that, as Watson quotes Joyce, “lives down to fact” — lives without a transcendental “singular,” but rather with an artist’s sensitivity to the phenomenological particulars of everyday experience. Recommended By Jonathan V. B., Powells.com