This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom

This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom

A profound, original, and accessible book that offers a new secular vision of how we can lead our lives. Ranging from fundamental existential questions to the most pressing social issues of our time, This Life shows why our commitment to freedom and democracy should lead us beyond both religion and capitalism.

In this groundbreaking book, the philosopher Martin HÃ¤gglund challenges our received notions of faith and freedom. The faith we need to cultivate, he argues, is not a religious faith in eternity but a secular faith devoted to our finite life together. He shows that all spiritual questions of freedom are inseparable from economic and material conditions. What ultimately matters is how we treat one another in this life, and what we do with our time together.

HÃ¤gglund develops new existential and political principles while transforming our understanding of spiritual life. His critique of religion takes us to the heart of what it means to mourn our loved ones, be committed, and care about a sustainable world. His critique of capitalism demonstrates that we fail to sustain our democratic values because our lives depend on wage labor. In clear and pathbreaking terms, HÃ¤gglund explains why capitalism is inimical to our freedom, and why we should instead pursue a novel form of democratic socialism.

In developing his vision of an emancipated secular life, HÃ¤gglund engages 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. This Life gives us new access to our pastâ€”for the sake of a different future.
Country USA
Brand Pantheon
Manufacturer Pantheon
Binding Hardcover
Color Cream
ReleaseDate 2019-03-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781101870402

Country	USA
Brand	Pantheon
Manufacturer	Pantheon
Binding	Hardcover
Color	Cream
ReleaseDate	2019-03-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781101870402

This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom

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