{"product_id":"2940169119688","title":"This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA profound, original, and accessible audiobook 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, \u003ci\u003eThis Life\u003c\/i\u003e reveals why our commitment to freedom and democracy should lead us beyond both religion and capitalism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this groundbreaking audiobook, 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 reveals 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHägglund 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 andMartin Luther King, Jr. \u003ci\u003eThis Life\u003c\/i\u003e gives us new access to our past amp;mdash; for the sake of a different future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104305627376,"sku":"2940169119688","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169119688_p0.jpg?v=1763761403","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169119688","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}