New Atlantis Books
Our book series, jointly produced with Encounter Books, offers titles that explore the political challenges and possibilities, the moral meaning, and the cultural significance of modern science and technology.
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Appeals to human dignity are at the core of many of the most contentious social and political issues of our time. But these appeals suggest different and at times even contradictory ways of understanding the term. Theologian and bioethicist Gilbert Meilaender elaborates the philosophical, theological, and political implications of the question of dignity, and suggests a path through the thicket. | |
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 Imagining the Future From stem cell research to global warming, human cloning, evolution, and beyond, the science debates are not exactly about science, but come down to a dispute between liberals and conservatives about the right way to think about the future. Properly understood — which they have not been lately — those debates may powerfully clarify the contours of our politics and the deepest meaning of scientific progress. | |
 In the Shadow of Progress A deep and lively reflection on the moral challenges of the technological age. Eric Cohen, a leading voice in America’s bioethics debates and the founding editor of The New Atlantis, offers a tour of the complex dilemmas at the intersection of science and morality, moving seamlessly from contemporary subjects like stem cells and evolution to classic texts like the Hebrew Bible and Francis Bacon’s “New Atlantis.” | |
Neither Beast nor God
