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Finitude, Temporality, and the Criticism of Religion in Martin Hägglund's This Life Why Mortality Makes Us Free (2019)

Publication at Hussite Theological Faculty |
2020

Abstract

This article deals with one of the bestselling recent volumes in philosophy, Martin Hägglund's This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free. In this book, Hägglund propagates ideas akin to those promoted within secular humanism.

The article places the arguments laid out in this book within post-secular religion-cultural climate currently rising internationally. The most important part of the article is the last section that engages Hägglund's main arguments theologically, in particular his understanding of temporality and eternity.