Martin Hägglund
@martinhaegglund
Professor @Yale. Author of *This Life* (https://t.co/eScPLFmPuN). Philosophy, politics, literature.
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Harmon Siegel’s Painting with Monet is one of the best works of art history I’ve read. A brilliant Hegelian account of the impressionists’ strategy of painting side by side, to secure the objectivity of painterly representation through mutual recognition.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…
Got to hear Martin Hägglund give a thought-provoking lecture on the mortality of the soul last night and, over dinner, learn about his upcoming book, which draws heavily upon Aristotle’s hylomorphism in *De Anima* to think through what it means to be a rational organism.
Stunned by the beautiful German translation of *This Life*, published by Verlag C.H. Beck (Verlag C.H.BECK Recht):
Another “signed by the author” book. Inspired to buy after reading Martin Hägglund’s This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
Ich empfehle zu Abraham und Isaak die Kierkegaard-Kritik von Martin Hägglund in dessen lesenswerten neuen Buch.
A great podcast on Alisa Zhulina’s new book *Theater of Capital*—ranging from her analysis of the internal contradictions of capitalism to her new readings of Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, and their legacy today (Alisa Zhulina):
open.spotify.com/episode/1vOCP1…