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.
0 有用 我魔法少女呢 2022-02-23 18:01:29
虽然有所启发 但老生常谈无甚乐趣
2 有用 水牛之王神乃襞 2022-07-09 11:16:24
全书出现最多的两个词是什么?“commit”和“lose”,简而言之,你看不到任何对于他者他异性的真正尊重,看不到任何未来的向度,重要的区别仅仅是“绝对的占有”和“非绝对的(因而也就是存在失去风险的)占有”的区别,所谓的可受伤性也无非是这种失去财产的风险而已,和一个人活生生的部分没有任何关系,只要毫无保留地享受俗世的每一个幻想,你就是一个去默西亚的人了,就算鸡汤都嫌发馊
0 有用 proletaricat 2019-12-30 19:14:03
brilliant
2 有用 水牛之王神乃襞 2022-07-09 11:16:24
全书出现最多的两个词是什么?“commit”和“lose”,简而言之,你看不到任何对于他者他异性的真正尊重,看不到任何未来的向度,重要的区别仅仅是“绝对的占有”和“非绝对的(因而也就是存在失去风险的)占有”的区别,所谓的可受伤性也无非是这种失去财产的风险而已,和一个人活生生的部分没有任何关系,只要毫无保留地享受俗世的每一个幻想,你就是一个去默西亚的人了,就算鸡汤都嫌发馊
0 有用 我魔法少女呢 2022-02-23 18:01:29
虽然有所启发 但老生常谈无甚乐趣
0 有用 proletaricat 2019-12-30 19:14:03
brilliant