Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Excerpt: /325/ Reading Club: Freedom (1)
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Excerpt: /325/ Reading Club: Freedom (1)
On Martin Hägglund's This Life.
[Patreon Tier II & III Exclusive]
We begin the 2023 Reading Club with the theme of FREEDOM. In this episode, we examine Martin Hägglund's arguments for secular faith presented in the first half of his book. Is Hagglund right in arguing that much of religious belief, especially in relation to morality, is actually motivated by secular faith?
Hägglund's enemy is not so much religion as the "Stoic" attempt to withdraw and detach from the temporal world. Instead we should be engaged and committed to the persons and projects we care about in this life. But does Hägglund underestimate alienation? Is his approach overly demanding?
And what about disenchantment? How would we go about re-enchanting the secular world?
For local Reading Clubs, email [email protected]
Readings:
- This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free, Martin Hägglund, Profile Books ––Introduction; Chapter 1 (Sections 2, 3, 4); Chapter 2 (Sections 2, 4, 6)
View all episodes
By Bungacast
4.5
212212 ratings
On Martin Hägglund's This Life.
[Patreon Tier II & III Exclusive]
We begin the 2023 Reading Club with the theme of FREEDOM. In this episode, we examine Martin Hägglund's arguments for secular faith presented in the first half of his book. Is Hagglund right in arguing that much of religious belief, especially in relation to morality, is actually motivated by secular faith?
Hägglund's enemy is not so much religion as the "Stoic" attempt to withdraw and detach from the temporal world. Instead we should be engaged and committed to the persons and projects we care about in this life. But does Hägglund underestimate alienation? Is his approach overly demanding?
And what about disenchantment? How would we go about re-enchanting the secular world?
For local Reading Clubs, email [email protected]
Readings:
- This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free, Martin Hägglund, Profile Books ––Introduction; Chapter 1 (Sections 2, 3, 4); Chapter 2 (Sections 2, 4, 6)
More shows like Bungacast
View all
Behind the News with Doug Henwood
515 Listeners
Jacobin Radio
1,460 Listeners
The Dig
1,584 Listeners
Chapo Trap House
8,844 Listeners
Why Theory
586 Listeners
Politics Theory Other
177 Listeners
Hermitix
357 Listeners
Know Your Enemy
2,053 Listeners
TRUE ANON TRUTH FEED
3,334 Listeners
Acid Horizon
197 Listeners
Doomscroll with Joshua Citarella
286 Listeners
What's Left of Philosophy
279 Listeners
American Prestige
1,064 Listeners
Ones and Tooze
340 Listeners