Espen Hammer
Espen Hammer (born 17 March 1966) is a Norwegian philosopher. He is a Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and has held visiting professorships at the New School for Social Research and the University of Pennsylvania. Between 1998 and 2007 he was a Lecturer and later Reader at the University of Essex. He has also been a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo. He currently lives in Philadelphia.
Hammer's main focus is on the post-Kantian European tradition of philosophy. Most of his work deals with questions of ethics, politics and subjectivity. This includes work on German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno.[1] He has also written Det indre mørke, about the history of the concept of melancholia.[2]
Selected bibliography
- Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory Cambridge University Press 2011 ISBN 978-1-107-00500-6
- Adorno and the Political (Thinking the Political) Routledge 2005 ISBN 0-415-28913-0
- Adorno's Modernism: Art, Experience, and Catastrophe" Cambridge University Press 2015
- Inner Darkness: An Essay on Melancholy Universitetsforlaget 2004
- Stanley Cavell: Skepticism, Subjectivity, and the Ordinary Polity Press 2002 ISBN 0-7456-2358-1
- Editor of German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives Routledge 2007
- Editor of Stanley Cavell: Die Unheimlichkeit des Gewohnlichen Fischer Verlag 2002
- Editor of Kafka's The Trial: Philosophical Perspectives Oxford University Press 2018
- Co-Editor (with Peter E Gordon and Axel Honneth) of The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School Routledge 2019
- Co-editor (with Peter E Gordon and Max Pensky) of A Companion to Adorno" Wiley-Blackwell 2020
References
- Wenning, Mario. "Book Review: Espen Hammer: Adorno and the Political". Review Journal of Political Philosophy. 4.
- Morgenbladet (20 May 2005). "Melankoliens objekt". Morgenbladet. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
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