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Transworld Publishers Ltd Dawkins Dennett Harris Hitchens The Four Horseman by Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris and Daniel C Dennett and Christopher Hitchens and Foreword by Stephen Fry
__________________x000D__x000D_Includes a foreword by STEPHEN FRY_x000D__x000D_'A classic for our time...And all time.' - Michael Shermer_x000D__x000D_'The words of Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris and Dennett are needed more than ever. These are the heirs to Voltaire.' - Matt Ridley_x000D__x000D_Known as the 'four horsemen' of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging. Everything that was said as they agreed and disagreed with one another, interrogated ideas and exchanged insights - about religion and atheism, science and sense - speaks with urgency to our present age. _x000D__x000D_Questions they asked of each other included: 'Is it ever possible to win a war of ideas? Is spirituality the preserve of the religious? Are there any truths you would rather not know? Would you want to see the end of faith?' _x000D_The dialogue was recorded, and is now transcribed and presented here with new introductions from the surviving three horsemen. _x000D__x000D_With a sparkling introduction from Stephen Fry, it makes essential reading for all their admirers and for anyone interested in exploring the tensions between faith and reason._x000D_show more