The era of emptiness. How people began to live without God, which replaced religion and what came of all this

One of the most outstanding English intellectuals wrote a book about one of the most important intellectual movements of our time. For the first time, Peter Watson gathered together the works of various gifted people who joyfully accepted atheism, the proclaimed death of God, and began to look for other ways of life, discovered or glorified other approaches to the meaning of our existence.
Many gloomy prophets of the twentieth century expressed the horror of a picture of a cold and unprotected world in which there is no God. A lifeless desert, meaningless emptiness, absurd existence, eternal loneliness. Is it possible to try to live in such a world with self -confidence, with ingenuity, hope, mind and enthusiasm?