This brief volume publishes papers from a conference hosted by the Blanquerna Observatory on Media, Religion, and Culture, which examine the concept of atheism as it appears in European literature of the 20th century. The editors write "literature and atheism create a binomial not extensively studied because the two concepts may, at first glance, seem unrelated. Nevertheless, the expression of God's absence is a common theme in literature and, specifically, in poetry" (p. 5). Each essay explores how the two interact. The collection contains eight presentations: "Pessimism from Schopenhauer in Thomas Mann's Narrative" (Ignasi Boada); "The Caste System and the Jewish Problem as Causes of Intellectual Decadence in Spain" (Marcelo Lopez Combronero); "Faith and Reason in the Constitution of Europe: The Testimony of Edith Stein" (Feliciana Merino Escalera); "Two Renaissance Texts and the Paradoxical Foundation of an Atheist by Default Europe" (Joan Verges Gifra); "Antoni Tapies: Spirituality or Atheism? An Insight in his Art Writings" (Eulalia Tort); "Ian McEwan, Atheist Narrative, and Ethnographic Criticism: 'Black Dogs' as a Case Study" (Ethan Quillen); "Empty Poetry: Literature as Atheistic Ground" (Miriam Diez and Jordi Sanchez); and "Atheism and Writing in Maurice Blanchot" (Joan Cabo Rodriguez).
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