This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom Description Winner of the René Wellek Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Millions, and The Sydney Morning Herald This Life 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 Hägglund 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. 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., Hägglund points the way to an emancipated life. Read more Features: Product Details: Publisher ‏ : ‎ Anchor; Reprint edition (February 4, 2020) Language ‏ : ‎ English Paperback ‏ : ‎ 464 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1101873736 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 31 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.21 x 0.98 x 8.03 inches Best Sellers Rank: #264,739 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #361 in Philosophy Metaphysics #439 in Religious Philosophy (Books) #823 in Philosophy of Ethics & Morality #361 in Philosophy Metaphysics #439 in Religious Philosophy (Books)