This Life

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SKU: 9781788163019
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Why Mortality Makes Us Free

By Martin Hägglund

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This Life by Martin Hägglund explores the philosophical implications of living a finite life and the pursuit of meaningful freedom within this temporal existence. Hägglund challenges traditional religious and secular frameworks, advocating for a vision of commitment to social and political transformation to enhance our time on Earth. Through engaging with concepts of mortality and immortality, the book invites readers to reconsider the value of their lives and the systems they inhabit.
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You might enjoy this book if you're intrigued by philosophical explorations of life's finite nature and how it impacts our values and commitments. It offers a thought-provoking view on how our understanding of mortality shapes our ethical and spiritual lives, encouraging readers to embrace this life with purpose and responsibility.

This Life

A serious and original philosopher tackles the meaning of life and returns with a majestic, liberating new answer.

A serious and original philosopher tackles the meaning of life and returns with a majestic, liberating new answer

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If this life is all there is, what should we do with it? Join Swedish philosopher Martin Hägglund on an original inquiry into the deepest questions of existence, beginning with a radical declaration: 'What I do and what I love can matter to me only because I understand myself as mortal.'

Through revelatory engagements with some of history's greatest philosophers, including Aristotle, St Augustine, Nietzsche, Hegel, and Marx, Hägglund attacks our two great deceivers, religion and capitalism. Only by stripping away their subtle illusions can we discover the true value of our earthly freedom.

Existence is revealed as a collective project: everything is at stake in what we do together, and no victory can survive us. 'The light of bliss - even when it floods your life - is always attended by the shadow of loss.' By illuminating this truth, This Life forges an existential philosophy fit for a darkening century.

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Martin Hägglund's This Life is praised for being profoundly thought-provoking, with a clear and accessible style that invites readers to re-evaluate life’s meaning, especially through the lens of secular freedom. Critics highlight the book's intellectual depth, moral fortitude, and its call for revolutionary ideas about value and societal structures. With its urgent appeal for a politics responsive to climate disaster and its emphasis on cherishing mortal life, the work is considered both an argument and a call to action.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781788163019

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 October 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Profile Books Ltd

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 124.0mm

Height: 194.0mm

Weight: 321g

Pages: 464

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Martin Hägglund Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism

About the Author

Martin Hagglund is Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at Yale University, and a member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. In 2018, he received a Guggenheim fellowship. He lives in New York City.