Martin Hägglund
Biographic Data
| ID | 1383793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Hägglund |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Hägglund |
| SIGNATURE | HÄGGLUND M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6883-1471 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
Knausgaard’s Secular Confession
This article presents a reading of Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle as a whole, pursuing the existential stakes, philosophical implications, and transformative quality of the six-volume novel. My Struggle is read as a "secular confession," which can be seen as a contemporary response to Augustine. Like Augustine, Knausgaard explores the care that binds us to others and how the experience of time cuts through every moment. But while Augustine see…
Beauty That Must Die: A Response to Michael Clune
Research Article| November 01 2015 Beauty That Must Die: A Response to Michael Clune Martin Hägglund Martin Hägglund Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2015) 15 (3): 101–108. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.15.3.0101 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Martin Hägglund; Beauty That Must…
Time in Our Time: Clune and Hägglund Debating at Stanford
Research Article| November 01 2015 Time in Our Time: Clune and Hägglund Debating at Stanford Michael W. Clune; Michael W. Clune Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Martin Hägglund Martin Hägglund Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2015) 15 (3): 109–134. https://doi.org/10.14321/crne…
Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov
Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Vladimir Nabokov transformed the art of the novel in order to convey the experience of time. Nevertheless, their works have been read as expressions of a desire to transcend time—whether through an epiphany of memory, an immanent moment of being, or a transcendent afterlife. Martin Hägglund takes on these themes but gives them another reading entirely. The fear of time and death does not stem from a desire to tr…
L'athéisme radical de Derrida
The Challenge of Radical Atheism: A Response
The Challenge of Radical Atheism:A Response Martin Hägglund (bio) Let us again return to the good we are seeking, and ask what it can be. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics On an occasion when I have been given so many reasons to feel joy and gratitude, it seems appropriate to begin my response with a reflection on happiness, or more exactly on the possibility of being happy. At the outset of his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle identifies happiness as "…
Chronolibidinal Reading: Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis
Chronolibidinal Reading:Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis Martin Hägglund (bio) That Time will come and take my love away.This thought is as a death which cannot chooseBut weep to have that which it fears to lose. Shakespeare, Sonnet LXIV In his essay "On Transience," Sigmund Freud recounts a summer walk through the countryside with a famous poet. The scenery is resplendent, but the poet is haunted by the sense that all the beauty will be destroy…
Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life
Radical Atheism presents a profound new reading of the influential French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Against the prevalent notion that there was an ethical or religious "turn" in Derrida's thinking, Hägglund argues that a radical atheism informs Derrida's work from beginning to end. Proceeding from Derrida's insight into the constitution of time, Hägglund demonstrates how Derrida rethinks the condition of identity, ethics, religion, and politic…
Radical atheism: Derrida and the time of life
Radical Atheism presents a profound new reading of the influential French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Against the prevalent notion that there was an ethical or religious "turn" in Derrida's thinking, Hagglund argues that a radical atheism informs Derrida's work from beginning to end. Proceeding from Derrida's insight into the constitution of time, Hagglund demonstrates how Derrida rethinks the condition of identity, ethics, religion, and politic…
Nabokov's Afterlife: A Reply to Brian Boyd
Nabokov’s Afterlife:A Reply to Brian Boyd Martin Hägglund (bio) Brian Boyd's reply to my essay proceeds from the assumption that I appeal to Nabokov's philosophy of time in order to make my argument and that I charge Boyd with having misconstrued Nabokov's philosophy. This is not the case. I clearly acknowledge that Boyd's arguments stem from a "reconstruction of Nabokov's metaphysics" and that Nabokov himself sometimes describes time as a "priso…
Chronophilia: Nabokov and the Time of Desire
A metaphysical conception of desire dominates Nabokov scholarship. Historically, metaphysics has understood desire as the desire for the absolute fullness of timelessness. In contrast, I argue that temporal finitude is not a lack of being that testifies to an absent fullness. Rather, temporal finitude is the condition for both the desirable and the undesirable. I conceptualize this double bind in terms of the constitutive entanglement between chr…
Knausgaard’s Secular Confession
This article presents a reading of Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle as a whole, pursuing the existential stakes, philosophical implications, and transformative quality of the six-volume novel. My Struggle is read as a "secular confession," which can be seen as a contemporary response to Augustine. Like Augustine, Knausgaard explores the care that binds us to others and how the experience of time cuts through every moment. But while Augustine see…
Nabokov's Afterlife: A Reply to Brian Boyd
Nabokov’s Afterlife:A Reply to Brian Boyd Martin Hägglund (bio) Brian Boyd's reply to my essay proceeds from the assumption that I appeal to Nabokov's philosophy of time in order to make my argument and that I charge Boyd with having misconstrued Nabokov's philosophy. This is not the case. I clearly acknowledge that Boyd's arguments stem from a "reconstruction of Nabokov's metaphysics" and that Nabokov himself sometimes describes time as a "priso…
Chronophilia: Nabokov and the Time of Desire
A metaphysical conception of desire dominates Nabokov scholarship. Historically, metaphysics has understood desire as the desire for the absolute fullness of timelessness. In contrast, I argue that temporal finitude is not a lack of being that testifies to an absent fullness. Rather, temporal finitude is the condition for both the desirable and the undesirable. I conceptualize this double bind in terms of the constitutive entanglement between chr…
Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life
Radical Atheism presents a profound new reading of the influential French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Against the prevalent notion that there was an ethical or religious "turn" in Derrida's thinking, Hägglund argues that a radical atheism informs Derrida's work from beginning to end. Proceeding from Derrida's insight into the constitution of time, Hägglund demonstrates how Derrida rethinks the condition of identity, ethics, religion, and politic…
Radical atheism: Derrida and the time of life
Radical Atheism presents a profound new reading of the influential French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Against the prevalent notion that there was an ethical or religious "turn" in Derrida's thinking, Hagglund argues that a radical atheism informs Derrida's work from beginning to end. Proceeding from Derrida's insight into the constitution of time, Hagglund demonstrates how Derrida rethinks the condition of identity, ethics, religion, and politic…
The Challenge of Radical Atheism: A Response
The Challenge of Radical Atheism:A Response Martin Hägglund (bio) Let us again return to the good we are seeking, and ask what it can be. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics On an occasion when I have been given so many reasons to feel joy and gratitude, it seems appropriate to begin my response with a reflection on happiness, or more exactly on the possibility of being happy. At the outset of his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle identifies happiness as "…
Chronolibidinal Reading: Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis
Chronolibidinal Reading:Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis Martin Hägglund (bio) That Time will come and take my love away.This thought is as a death which cannot chooseBut weep to have that which it fears to lose. Shakespeare, Sonnet LXIV In his essay "On Transience," Sigmund Freud recounts a summer walk through the countryside with a famous poet. The scenery is resplendent, but the poet is haunted by the sense that all the beauty will be destroy…
Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov
Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Vladimir Nabokov transformed the art of the novel in order to convey the experience of time. Nevertheless, their works have been read as expressions of a desire to transcend time—whether through an epiphany of memory, an immanent moment of being, or a transcendent afterlife. Martin Hägglund takes on these themes but gives them another reading entirely. The fear of time and death does not stem from a desire to tr…
L'athéisme radical de Derrida
Beauty That Must Die: A Response to Michael Clune
Research Article| November 01 2015 Beauty That Must Die: A Response to Michael Clune Martin Hägglund Martin Hägglund Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2015) 15 (3): 101–108. https://doi.org/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.15.3.0101 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Martin Hägglund; Beauty That Must…
Time in Our Time: Clune and Hägglund Debating at Stanford
Research Article| November 01 2015 Time in Our Time: Clune and Hägglund Debating at Stanford Michael W. Clune; Michael W. Clune Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Martin Hägglund Martin Hägglund Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2015) 15 (3): 109–134. https://doi.org/10.14321/crne…
Knausgaard’s Secular Confession
This article presents a reading of Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle as a whole, pursuing the existential stakes, philosophical implications, and transformative quality of the six-volume novel. My Struggle is read as a "secular confession," which can be seen as a contemporary response to Augustine. Like Augustine, Knausgaard explores the care that binds us to others and how the experience of time cuts through every moment. But while Augustine see…
This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Vladimir Nabokov Literary Studies (4 works) · Atheism (3 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)