This Life: Secular Faith & Spiritual Freedom - Martin Hägglund
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atheism
Capitalism
Democratic-Socialism
Neoliberalism
Religion
Secularism
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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 Hägglund 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.
Hägglund 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, Hägglund 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, Hägglund 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 past - for the sake of a different future.
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This post has 5 comments with rating of 5/5
June 12th, 2020
Ah. another in a long and congested series of inflicting socialism / communism under the guide of ‘freedom’, which actually is a means of enslavement to the State.
Demolishing the family, demolishing the benefits of capitalism, keeping the populace needy, greedy and angry.
This is one of the planks of communism, all the rest can easily researched and studied online on the many websites devoted to communism.
June 12th, 2020
Thanks!
June 13th, 2020
Thank you so very much for this upload. I read it twice and consider it to be the most important book of the last two decades. Hagglund’s concept of revaluation of value (”socially available free time” vs. capital) is as revolutionary as it is necessary. His writing is clear, concise, and engaging and the issues he deals with utterly fascinating. The book will change you and the way you live “this [and only] life”. I guarantee it.
December 2nd, 2020
Don’t let the brainwashed weirdos who redbait every book that remotely dares to make us think twice about life under capitalism. This is an honest work. Not the most profound or incisive, but authentic.
June 17th, 2022
Can someone please seed?
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