Difficult Atheism

  • Which God(s) do you (not) believe in? An interview with Christopher Watkin, Journal of Baudrillard Studies

    Which God(s) do you (not) believe in? An interview with Christopher Watkin, Journal of Baudrillard Studies

    A while back now I was interviewed by Jon Baldwin for the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies. The original electronic version of the interview is available here. I have also also pasted it below.   Which God(s) do you (not) believe in? An interview with Christopher Watkin ISSN: 1705-6411 Volume 16, Number 1 (January 2020)

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  • Difficult Atheism reviewed in Derrida Today

    Difficult Atheism reviewed in Derrida Today

    The latest issue of Derrida Today includes a review of my Difficult Atheism by Christina Smerick. You can read the whole review online for free here. Watkin’s thesis is bold and unapologetic, and shapes the path of his reading and thinking with intense focus. His main concern, bordering on a battle cry, is that the ground gained by atheism

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  • Talk in Melbourne on Aug 5 – Varieties of Contemporary Atheism: Badiou, Nancy, Meillassoux

    On August 5 at 11am I will have the pleasure of speaking at the Melbourne University of Divinity philosophy seminar on the subject “Varieties of Contemporary Atheism: Badiou, Nancy, Meillassoux”. The talk seeks to synthesise and develop some of the main lines of thinking from Difficult Atheism and to open the argument of the book to

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  • New review of Difficult Atheism at Marx and Philosophy

    New review of Difficult Atheism at Marx and Philosophy

    Over at Marx&Philosophy, Bryan Cooke (whom I had the pleasure of meeting at last year’s Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy conference) has posted a review of Difficult Atheism. The opening paragraph gives a flavour of the review’s tone and also of Bryan’s style, which, for all the right reasons, is best left undescribed: Christopher Watkin’s

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  • Meillassoux’s Oedipal atheism

    ‘No gods anywhere now, not for me, now’: Meillassoux’s Oedipal atheism In Difficult Atheism I left the discussion of Meillassoux’s divine inexistence after having sketched a series of arguments detailing why I think he does not succeed in demonstrating the principle of factiality in the way I think he intends. In this post I want

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  • Atheism, imitation and word clouds

    I am currently preparing for a paper I have been invited to give at the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy at Radboud University, Nijmegen in September, and I am trying to refine my understanding of what is ‘imitative’ about imitative atheism. It is a journey that is taking me from Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus through Aristotle’s Physics, Thomas a

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  • Quentin Meillassoux, divine inexistence and split rationality

    With a new issue of Analecta Hermeneutica just out there has been some discussion this past week of Peter Gratton’s article on Meillassoux’s ontology of divine inexistence (here, here and here, with some reaction on Gratton’s own blog, Philosophy in a time of error). The discussion put me in mind of a paper I gave way

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