This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free
This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free
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In this life, what should we do with it? Martin Hägglund explores the deepest questions of existence, challenging religion and capitalism and revealing the true value of earthly freedom through revelatory engagements with great philosophers. Existence is a collective project, and no victory can survive us.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 464 pages
Publication date: 01 October 2020
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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.
Weight: 374g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781788163019
Edition number: Main
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