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Spiritual atheism, Part one: reading Kafka for breakfast, swallowed up for lunch.(A Special APR Supplement)(Franz Kafka)

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From: The American Poetry Review
Date: 20060501
Author:Antinoff, Steven

Note: Part Two of this essay will appear in the July/August 2006 issue.

Chapter 1: "God is necessary, and so must exist.... Yet I know that he doesn't exist, and can't exist."

--Kirilov, in Dostoyevsky's The Devils

Over the last hundred and sixty years a great dilemma has been hatching out of western spiritual consciousness. Western woman and man have drawn an X through the world. Through ourselves and through our world.

Traces of this momentous act can be found in the apparently detached but finally desperate warning of Kierkegaard's "aesthete" in his book ...

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