The New Atheist Novel: Fiction, Philosophy, and Polemic after 9/11: Book Review

Abstract

This article presents a review of the book: The New Atheist Novel: Fiction, Philosophy, and Polemic after 9/11, by Arthur Bradley and Andrew Tait, in which they question the reason for the popularity of the new atheism despite its philosophical, historical, and theological poverty. Before the authors answer this question, they try to extract some features of the new atheism. In addition to the aforementioned epistemological and philosophical poverty, and the adherence of the proponents of this atheism to the scientific and philosophical products of the nineteenth century, there is another characteristic, which is the almost circular self-referencing. Hence, there is a certain group of names, information, and arguments that Dawkins and his company constantly circulate. And the new atheistic echo chamber continues to present, review, and publicize each other's work in continuity with the principle of self-referral and in what resembles incestuous hesitation.