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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Tamas Pataki (University of Melbourne, Australia)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.530kg ISBN: 9781138698123ISBN 10: 1138698121 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 25 April 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPart 1: Theory 1. The Advent of Spirits and the Birth of Religion 2. Mysticism, Intellectualism and the Poverty of Cognitivism 3. For the Love of Gods 4. Narcissism in Religion Part 2: Polemic 5. The New Atheism and the New Fanaticism 6. Sexual Morality and Law 7. Agression in Religion 8. Reason and ReligionReviews"""Psychoanalysis from the first preferred reason over religion, even as it acknowledged religion’s extraordinary powers. Religious commitments, beliefs and practices invest all sorts of human activities; such phenomena do not always admit to their own religious character. In this ambitious, rigorous and polemical book, which draws on an impressive range of scholarship, Tamas Pataki takes up the challenge of analysing and combating the pathological aspects of religions, from the ancient entrance of spirits into human affairs, through the development of the monotheisms, to the unconscious psychic investments that continue to sustain them."" Justin Clemens, associate professor at The University of Melbourne is author of Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy and co-author of Barron Field in New South Wales. Pataki is a philosopher who explores the evolution of religion through a critical atheistic perspective pivoting on psychoanalytic object-relations theory. It is this aespect of his thought that provides a much-needed depth of understanding of religious fundamentaism and extremism, the dominant themes of this timely book. Well informed by prehistoric and anthropological scholarship and argued with exceptional clarity, this revised version of his Against Religion offers a sobering critique in the current historical context when much of humankind is becoming overinflated by its divine images and their correlative this-worldy identities. Dr Jadran Mimica, Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, The University of Sydney and author of Of Humans, Pigs and Souls." Author InformationTamas Pataki is Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Author of Against Religion, Wish-fulfilment in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, and co-editor of Racism in Mind. He has also published journal articles and book chapters on the philosophy of mind and religion, most recently in The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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