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If this life is all there is, what should we do with it? Join Swedish philosopher Martin Hagglund 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, Hagglund 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.
Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Vladimir Nabokov transformed the art of the novel in order to convey the experience of time. Nevertheless, their works have been read as expressions of a desire to transcend time-whether through an epiphany of memory, an immanent moment of being, or a transcendent afterlife. Martin Hagglund takes on these themes but gives them another reading entirely. The fear of time and death does not stem from a desire to transcend time, he argues. On the contrary, it is generated by the investment in temporal life. From this vantage point, Hagglund offers in-depth analyses of Proust's Recherche, Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and Nabokov's Ada. Through his readings of literary works, Hagglund also sheds new light on topics of broad concern in the humanities, including time consciousness and memory, trauma and survival, the technology of writing and the aesthetic power of art. Finally, he develops an original theory of the relation between time and desire through an engagement with Freud and Lacan, addressing mourning and melancholia, pleasure and pain, attachment and loss. Dying for Time opens a new way of reading the dramas of desire as they are staged in both philosophy and literature.
"Radical Atheism" presents a profound new reading of the
influential French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Against the
prevalent notion that there was an ethical or religious "turn" in
Derrida's thinking, Hagglund argues that a radical atheism informs
Derrida's work from beginning to end. Proceeding from Derrida's
insight into the constitution of time, Hagglund demonstrates how
Derrida rethinks the condition of identity, ethics, religion, and
political emancipation in accordance with the logic of radical
atheism. Hagglund challenges other major interpreters of Derrida's
work and offers a compelling account of Derrida's thinking on life
and death, good and evil, self and other. Furthermore, Hagglund
does not only explicate Derrida's position but also develops his
arguments, fortifies his logic, and pursues its implications. The
result is a groundbreaking deconstruction of the perennial
philosophical themes of time and desire as well as pressing
contemporary issues of sovereignty and democracy.
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