This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom Audiobook (Free)

A profound, original, and accessible book that offers a new secular eyesight of how we can lead our lives. Which range from fundamental existential queries to the many pressing social problems of our period, This Life shows why our dedication to independence 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, isn’t a religious trust in concerning this Existence: Secular Faith and Spiritual Independence eternity but a secular trust devoted to our finite lifestyle together. He demonstrates all spiritual questions of freedom are inseparable from financial and material circumstances. What ultimately matters is how we treat each other in this life, and what we should do with this time together.

Hägglund develops new existential and political concepts while transforming our knowledge of spiritual life. His critique of religious beliefs takes us towards the center of what this means to mourn our family members, be committed, and value a sustainable globe. His critique of capitalism shows that we neglect to sustain our democratic beliefs because our lives depend on wage labor. In apparent and pathbreaking conditions, Hägglund clarifies why capitalism is certainly inimical to our freedom, and just 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 spiritual thinkers from Augustine to Kierkegaard and Martin Luther Ruler, Jr. This Existence gives us new access to our past-for the sake of a different future.