bradach 's review for:

This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom by Martin Hägglund

4.0

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Good philosophy but didn’t need so many examples to understand the point, especially more prominent in the first half of the book on secular faith. The book picks up steam and is more insightful and less repetitive once it connects this idea of secular faith to spiritual freedom and discusses the importance of Marx, Hegel, MLK in developing that unfulfilled dream of democratic socialism, in the second half of the book. Very great book, if for nothing else it helped me understand Augustine, Kierkegaard, Marx and Hegel better than I did.