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