A review by nferraro90
This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom by Martin Hägglund

4.0

The argument put forward in this book is that our finitude is what makes life worth living, and that viewing life as a passage to the eternal ultimately would make out earthly existence for naught. The author then ties this into our economic and material conditions, and how those are inseparable from our questions of spiritual freedoms. The author advances Marxist critiques of capitalism, ultimately endorsing a form of social democracy where workers own the means of production, and value is tied to free time created by technological advances, rather than by the never ending growth of capital. At time a bit repetitive, but overall very thought provoking and worth a read