This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom

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In this spiritual Text, Philosopher Martin Hägglund offers a profoundly inspiring basis for transforming our lives, demonstrating that our commitment to freedom and democracy should lead us beyond both religion and capitalism. This Life argues that we need to cultivate not a religious faith in eternity but a secular faith devoted to our finite life together. Hägglund illustrates that spiritual questions of freedom are inseparable from economic and material conditions: what matters is how we treat one another in this life and what we do with our time. Engaging with great philosophers from Aristotle to Hegel and Marx, literary writers from Dante to Proust and Knausgaard, political economists from Mill to Keynes and Hayek, and religious thinkers from Augustine to Kierkegaard and Martin Luther King, Jr., Hägglund points the way to an emancipated life.

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  This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom

  • 2019-03-05
  • 464 pages
  • Ebook
  • Anchor
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  This Life

  • 2021-06-08
  • - pages
  • Ebook
  • Agate Publishing
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  This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free

  • 2019-08-01
  • 542 pages
  • Paperback
  • Profile Books
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  This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom

  • 2019-03-05
  • 465 pages
  • Paperback
  • Pantheon

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