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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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