{"product_id":"this-life-secular-faith-and-spiritual-freedom-9781101873731","title":"This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Ren  Wellek Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian, The Millions, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Sydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Life\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Philosopher Martin H gglund argues that we need to cultivate 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 matters is how we treat one another in this life and what we do with our time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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., H gglund points the way to an emancipated life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARTIN HÄGGLUND\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of comparative literature and humanities at Yale University. A member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, he is the author of three highly acclaimed books, and his work has been translated into eight languages. In his native Sweden, he published his first book, \u003ci\u003e Chronophobia, \u003c\/i\u003eat the age of twenty-five. His first book in English, \u003ci\u003eRadical Atheism, \u003c\/i\u003ewas the subject of a conference at Cornell University and a colloquium at Oxford University. His most recent book, \u003ci\u003eDying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov, \u003c\/i\u003ewas hailed by the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e as a \"revolutionary\" achievement. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018. He lives in New York City. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003emartinhagglund.se\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50647703322898,"sku":"9781101873731","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f37d8621-42ff-4ee4-a085-0275c73bd9d6.jpg?v=1734804548","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/this-life-secular-faith-and-spiritual-freedom-9781101873731","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}