Volume 55, Number 15 · October 9, 2008
A Rescue of Religion
By John Gray
Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?: 23 Questions from Great Philosophers
by Leszek Kolakowski, translated from the Polish by Agnieszka Kolakowska
Basic Books, 223 pp., $20.00
Contemporary philosophy is a discipline in which religion hardly figures. A subject called philosophy of religion exists and has some devoted practitioners, but in the discipline as a whole inquiry into religion is a marginal activity. No doubt many circumstances have contributed to this state of affairs, some of them lying outside philosophy, but a part of the explanation lies in the recent history of the subject.
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