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Bones--This is an audio only, which I'm not gonna listen to. However, if
you click on the link, you'll find there is listed a second audio about a
Hungarian novelist.~H/
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Jim Farmelant wrote:
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> Ralph Dumaon on the atheist/humanist/skeptics movements in the US:
> http://www.thinktwiceradio.com/dumain/dumain.html Ralph summarizes the
> contents of his podcast as follows: "I propose a framework in which the
> intellectual basis of the atheist - humanist - skeptical movement,
> particularly in the USA, can be seen as a progressive bourgeois ideology
> that, while marking an historical advance beyond pre-modern,
> pre-industrial, pre-technological, pre-capitalist, supernaturally based
> forms of unreason, addresses only one half of the cognitive sources of
> irrationality of the modern world, and is ill-equipped to grapple with the
> secular forms of unreason, which can be denoted by the term "ideology". I
> argue that the Anglo-American intellectual heritage of atheism has never
> absorbed the indispensable heritage of German philosophy and social theory
> from Hegel to Marx to 20th century critical theory and thus remains
> philosophically underdeveloped and ensconced in a naive scientism. I
> furthermore argue that American atheism/humanism lacks adequate historical
> perspective due to the historical amnesia induced by the two historical
> breaks of McCarthyism and Reaganism. To combat historical amnesia I
> highlight not only relevant intellectual history but the buried history of
> working class atheism. I also sketch out some relevant philosophical
> aspects of the history of the American humanist movement beginning with the
> first Humanist Manifesto of 1933. I then discuss the intellectual
> consequences of the political repression of the McCarthy era. From there I
> discuss two prominent influences of the 1960s and 1970s, atheist Madalyn
> Murray O'Hair and humanist Paul Kurtz. I highlight Kurtz's dialogue with
> the Yugoslav Marxist-Humanist philosophers and his failure to learn from
> the encounter. Finally, I discuss the intellectual shortcomings of the
> so-called "new atheism" and today's celebrity atheists in the context of
> the depressing political perspective of our reactionary neoliberal era. I
> also don't spare the dissidents within the movement from my accusations of
> intellectual superficiality. I end on a note of bleak pessimism. "
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