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This Life audiobook
- Narrator: Kirby Heyborne
- Category: Body, Mind & Spirit, Spiritualism
- Length: 5 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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This Life Audiobook Summary
Winner of the René Wellek Prize
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Millions, and The Sydney Morning Herald
A profound, original, and accessible book that offers a new secular vision of how we can lead our lives. Ranging from fundamental existential questions to the most pressing social issues of our time, This Life shows why our commitment to freedom 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, is 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 ultimately matters is how we treat one another in this life, and what we do with our time together.
Hägglund develops new existential and political principles while transforming our understanding of spiritual life. His critique of religion takes us to the heart of what it means to mourn our loved ones, be committed, and care about a sustainable world. His critique of capitalism demonstrates that we fail to sustain our democratic values because our lives depend on wage labor. In clear and pathbreaking terms, Hägglund explains why capitalism is inimical to our freedom, and 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 religious thinkers from Augustine to Kierkegaard and Martin Luther King, Jr. This Life gives us new access to our past—for the sake of a different future.
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This Life Full Details
| Narrator | Kirby Heyborne |
| Length | 5 hours 57 minutes |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 28, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780525499633 |
Subjects
The publisher of the This Life is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: law, compassion, community, yoga, spirit, leadership, education, motivational books, self development, inspirational, motivation, positive thinking, theology, aura, religion, intuition, new age, healing, spirituality, freedom, spiritual, self help, christian, ethics, god, metaphysics, religious books, consciousness, feminism, Prayer, spiritual books, creativity, philosophy books, zen, love, happiness, self help books, psychology, meditation, buddhism, philosophy, mindfulness, faith, secular buddhism, this life, hospitality, belief, death, Body, Mind & Spirit, Spiritualism, Philosophy, Religious, Philosophy, Ethics & Moral Philosophy The BISAC Subject Code is Body, Mind & Spirit, Spiritualism
Additional info
The publisher of the This Life is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780525499633.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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