Contemporary atheism differs from the virulent antitheism of the nineteenth century. Basically a totally nonreligious humanism, it mostly refuses even the name 'atheism' and has confidently incorporated some feature of religion into its own secularism. Marcel Neusch's book is among the first to take full account of this change. His perceptive analysis presents the three prophets of modern atheism, Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, as well as some of their significant contemporary followers, Sartre. Bloch, Garaudy. In these spiritual profiles he has drawn a picture of today's secularism.