Feb 6, 2011
This Sunday’s guest is Nick Pease. Nick and George Kane, Chair of
the Minnesota Atheists, will discuss the humanistic principles that
infuse great literature bringing inspiration to the contemporary
atheist movement. These values are universal and timeless, and they
present an antidote to the political and religious “isms” that
divide the nation. In literature as well as in other arts, the most
perceptive interpreters of the human condition provide a coherent
vision of human life unbound by such academic formalism. Nick Pease
was the featured speaker at one of Minnesota Atheists’ public
meetings last year. There he spoke on the related topic of
existentialism, which, quoting Jean-Paul Sartre, he defined as a
lucid, compelling account of what it means to live a meaningful
life in a world devoid of ultimate meaning. Pease will show that
this is a major theme running through the great literature of all
ages. Nick Pease, is currently the Principal of Pease Prose
Services, providing Design, write marketing and print and
electronic communication services to corporate, governmental and
nonprofit clients. He earned a Doctorate Degree from the State
University of New York at Buffalo and has been an Adjunct Professor
at the University of St. Thomas and the University of Minnesota,
teaching critical reading and writing, speechwriting and
cross-currents in Literature, Arts and Culture.