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Espen Hammer

January 01, 1970

Espen Hammer (born 1966) is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. Focusing on modern European thought from Kant and Hegel to Adorno and Heidegger, Hammer’s research includes critical theory, Wittgenstein and ordinary language philosophy, phenomenology, German idealism, social and political theory, and aesthetics. He has also written widely on the philosophy of literature and taken a special interest in the question of temporality.[1]

Biography edit

Born in Oslo, in 1966, Hammer received his basic education, including a Bachelor of Arts degree (1989) from University of Oslo, in Norway. After a year as DAAD-fellow at the universities of Heidelberg and Frankfurt, Hammer, then a Fulbright Fellow, received his Master of Arts degree (1991) in philosophy from Columbia University, where he studied with, among others, Charles Larmore and Sidney Morgenbesser. In 1995, having studied with, among others, Yirmiahu Yovel, Agnes Heller, Seyla Benhabib, Reinhart Koselleck, and Richard Bernstein, he received his PhD degree in philosophy from the New School for Social Research.

Hammer has competed in four world championships of sailing, most recently in the 2018 Hague Offshore Sailing World Championship. His brother Øyvind Hammer is Professor of Paleontology at the University of Oslo. He currently lives in Philadelphia and is married to the philosopher Kristin Gjesdal with whom he has two children.

Career edit

After a period as Humboldt-Fellow at the University of Frankfurt, working with Axel Honneth, and as Associate and later full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo, Hammer spent seven years (1998-2005) as Lecturer and later Reader in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Essex. From 2006 to 2008 he was a Recurrent Visiting Professor at the Center for the Study of Cultural Complexity, University of Oslo. Between 2005 and 2009 he served as Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, The New School, and University of Pennsylvania before, in 2009, becoming Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. Since 2021 he has chaired the Philosophy Department at Temple.

In 1995, Hammer published a Norwegian translation of Immanuel Kant’s Kritik der Urteilskraft.[2]

His first book, Stanley Cavell: Skepticism, Subjectivity, and the Ordinary (Polity Press, 2002) analyzes the philosophy of Stanley Cavell in the context of Wittgenstein, ordinary language philosophy, and the question of selfhood.

In Adorno and the Political (Routledge, 2005), Hammer reconstructs the often neglected political dimension of Theodor W. Adorno’s thought. As opposed to a widespread view of this philosopher as an apolitical aesthete, Hammer shows how important the political is for his work, and how political questions influence both his theoretical contributions and his social involvement.[3][4][5]

A more recent monograph, Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2011), reinterprets central figures from the European philosophical tradition, including Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Adorno in terms of their views of temporality.[6][7] It is claimed that with the onset of modernity, lived time engenders a sense of crisis focused on existential meaning and transitoriness.[8] While recognizing this crisis, these thinkers each present recommendations for how this crisis should be tackled.[9] The study demonstrates Hammer’s interest in re-reading the canon from the vantage-point of the question of modernity and modernization.[10] For the publication, Hammer was granted the 2012 Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy Symposium Book Award.[11]

Hammer’s subsequent book, Adorno’s Modernism: Art, Experience, and Catastrophe (Cambridge University Press, 2015) is a comprehensive study of Theodor W. Adorno’s aesthetics and its relation to metaphysics, politics, and culture.[12][13]

He is currently completing a book on philosophy and religion, After the Death of God: Secularization as a Philosophical Challenge from Kant to Nietzsche (The University of Chicago Press, forthcoming). His Routledge Guidebook to Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment, co-authored with Fred Rush, is forthcoming from Routledge.

Hammer is the editor of German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge, 2005), Theodor W. Adorno II: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (Routledge, 2015), and Kafka’s The Trial: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2018).[14] With Peter Gordon and Axel Honneth, he edited The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School (2018). With Peter Gordon and Max Pensky he edited A Companion to Adorno (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020). He has also co-edited two German books: Stanley Cavell: Die Unheimlichkeit des Gewöhnlichen (Fischer Verlag, 2002) and Pragmatik und Hermeneutik: Studien zur Kulturpolitik Richard Rortys (Felix Meiner Verlag, 2011).

Hammer has published four Norwegian monographs: Adorno (Gyldendal, 2002), Det indre mørke. Et essay om melankoli (Universitetsforlaget, 2004, translated into Swedish, Russian, and Serbian), Anstendighet og revolt: Noen betraktninger omkring Dag Solstads forfatterskap (Oktober, 2011), and USA. En supermakt i krise (Kagge, 2021). In USA. En supermakt i krise, he analyzes the causes of American political polarization.[15]

He is a frequent contributor to public debate and has several times written for New York Times’ The Stone. From 1990 to 1996 he co-edited the Norwegian journal of philosophy Agora.

Selected bibliography edit

“Wittgenstein and the Prospects for a Contemporary Literary Criticism,” in Robert Chodat and John Gibson (eds.), Wittgenstein and Literary Studies (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 104-25.

“Rorty’s Approach to Kant and Hegel,” in Martin Mueller (ed.), Handbuch Richard Rorty (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2023),

“The Sixties,” in Lydia Goehr and Jonathan Gilmore (eds.), A Companion to Arthur C. Danto (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2022), 161-68.

“Critical Theory,” in C. M. van den Akker, The Routledge Companion to Historical Theory (New York: Routledge, 2021), 98-112.

“Logic and Voice: Stanley Cavell on Analytic Philosophy,” in Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 9: 9 (2021): 105-118.

“Critical Theory and the Challenge of Relativism,” in Martin Kusch (ed.), Routledge Handbook to Relativism (New York: Routledge, 2020), 247-55.

“The Antinomy of Modernism and Anti-Modernism in Adorno’s Negative Dialectics,” in Paul Giladi (ed.), Hegel and the Frankfurt School: Traditions in Dialogue (New York: Routledge, 2021), pp. 33-52.

“Adorno’s Critique of Heidegger,” in Max Pensky, Peter Gordon and Espen Hammer (eds.), A Companion to Adorno (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), pp. 473-87.

“Ideology and Experience: The Legacy of Critical Theory,” in Noel Carroll, Shawn Lot and Laura Teresa Di Summa-Knoop (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook for the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), 315-34.

“Dewey, Adorno, and the Purpose of Art,” in Steven Fesmire (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Dewey (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 471-88.

“Reason, Agency, and History: Remarks on Kant and Benjamin, in History and Theory 57:3 (2018), pp. 426-30.

“Kafka’s Modernism: Intelligibility and Voice in The Trial,” in Espen Hammer (ed.), Kafka’s The Trial: Philosophical Perspectives (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 227-52.

“Habermas and Ordinary Language Philosophy,” in Peter Gordon, Axel Honneth and Espen Hammer (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School (New York: Routledge, 2018), pp. 336-48.

“Literatur, Fiktionalität und Wirklichkeit,” in Gertrud Koch and Thomas Hilgers (eds.), Perspektive und Fiktion (Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2017), pp. 139-58.

“Husserl and the Inner-Outer Distinction,” in Marcia Morgan and Megan Craig (eds.), Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy: Thinking the Plural (London: Lexington Books, 2017), pp. 141-56.

“Experience and Temporality: Towards a New Paradigm of Critical Theory,” in Michael J. Thompson (ed.), Palgrave Handbook of Critical Theory (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 613-30.

“Epistemology and Self-Reflection in the Young Marx,” in Kristin Gjesdal (ed.), Key Debates in Nineteenth Century Philosophy (London and New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. 275-86.

“Happiness and Pleasure in Adorno’s Aesthetics,” Germanic Review 4:9 (2015): 247-59.

Adorno’s Modernism: Art, Experience, and Catastrophe (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015). ISBN 9781107121591

“Literature and Politics,” in Noel Carrol and John Gibson (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature (London and New York: Routledge, 2015), pp. 451-61.

“Hegel as a Theorist of Secularization,” in Hegel Bulletin 67:2 (2013): 223-44.

Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011). ISBN 978-1-107-00500-6

Adorno and the Political (London/New York: Routledge, 2005). ISBN 0-415-28913-0

Stanley Cavell: Skepticism, Subjectivity, and the Ordinary (Oxford: Polity Press, 2002). ISBN 0-7456-2358-1

References edit

  1. ^ Interview. "German Idealism and Modernism". 3:16.
  2. ^ "Kritikk av dømmekraften - Pax Forlag". www.pax.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2023-08-16.
  3. ^ Daniels, Richard (2008). "Review of Adorno and the Political". Science & Society. 72 (1): 116–118. ISSN 0036-8237. JSTOR 40404464.
  4. ^ Roberts, Christopher (2006). "Review: Adorno and the Political". Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal. 27 (1): 217–219. doi:10.5840/gfpj200627126. ISSN 0093-4240.
  5. ^ Jay, Martin (2006). "Review of Adorno and the Political". Notre Dame Philosophical Review. ISSN 1538-1617.
  6. ^ Blattner, William (2011). "Review of Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory". Notre Dame Philosophical Review. ISSN 1538-1617.
  7. ^ Fay, Brian (2013). "Hammer Time". History and Theory. 52 (1): 91–109. ISSN 0018-2656. JSTOR 23351884.
  8. ^ "Temporality, Friedrich Nietzsche & Modern Times". IIIIXIII. 2015-05-16. Retrieved 2023-08-16.
  9. ^ Hammer, Espen (2012). "On Modern Time". The New York Times: Opinionator. Retrieved 2023-08-16.
  10. ^ Interview: Espen Hammer - Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory, retrieved 2023-08-16
  11. ^ "Book Award | CSCP / SCPC". www.c-scp.org. Retrieved 2023-08-16.
  12. ^ Kaushall, Justin Neville (2016). "Review of Adorno's Modernism: Art, Experience, and Catastrophe". The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 74 (3): 316–318. ISSN 0021-8529. JSTOR 44510894.
  13. ^ Hulatt, Owen (2016). "Review of Adorno's Modernism: Art, Experience, and Catastrophe". Notre Dame Philosophical Review. ISSN 1538-1617.
  14. ^ McGregor, Rafe (2018-06-06). "Review of Kafka's The Trial: Philosophical Perspectives". Notre Dame Philosophical Review. ISSN 1538-1617.
  15. ^ "NORLA". NORLA (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2023-08-16.


    

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espen, hammer, born, 1966, professor, philosophy, temple, university, focusing, modern, european, thought, from, kant, hegel, adorno, heidegger, hammer, research, includes, critical, theory, wittgenstein, ordinary, language, philosophy, phenomenology, german, . Espen Hammer born 1966 is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University Focusing on modern European thought from Kant and Hegel to Adorno and Heidegger Hammer s research includes critical theory Wittgenstein and ordinary language philosophy phenomenology German idealism social and political theory and aesthetics He has also written widely on the philosophy of literature and taken a special interest in the question of temporality 1 Contents 1 Biography 2 Career 3 Selected bibliography 4 ReferencesBiography editBorn in Oslo in 1966 Hammer received his basic education including a Bachelor of Arts degree 1989 from University of Oslo in Norway After a year as DAAD fellow at the universities of Heidelberg and Frankfurt Hammer then a Fulbright Fellow received his Master of Arts degree 1991 in philosophy from Columbia University where he studied with among others Charles Larmore and Sidney Morgenbesser In 1995 having studied with among others Yirmiahu Yovel Agnes Heller Seyla Benhabib Reinhart Koselleck and Richard Bernstein he received his PhD degree in philosophy from the New School for Social Research Hammer has competed in four world championships of sailing most recently in the 2018 Hague Offshore Sailing World Championship His brother Oyvind Hammer is Professor of Paleontology at the University of Oslo He currently lives in Philadelphia and is married to the philosopher Kristin Gjesdal with whom he has two children Career editAfter a period as Humboldt Fellow at the University of Frankfurt working with Axel Honneth and as Associate and later full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo Hammer spent seven years 1998 2005 as Lecturer and later Reader in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Essex From 2006 to 2008 he was a Recurrent Visiting Professor at the Center for the Study of Cultural Complexity University of Oslo Between 2005 and 2009 he served as Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Temple University The New School and University of Pennsylvania before in 2009 becoming Professor of Philosophy at Temple University Since 2021 he has chaired the Philosophy Department at Temple In 1995 Hammer published a Norwegian translation of Immanuel Kant s Kritik der Urteilskraft 2 His first book Stanley Cavell Skepticism Subjectivity and the Ordinary Polity Press 2002 analyzes the philosophy of Stanley Cavell in the context of Wittgenstein ordinary language philosophy and the question of selfhood In Adorno and the Political Routledge 2005 Hammer reconstructs the often neglected political dimension of Theodor W Adorno s thought As opposed to a widespread view of this philosopher as an apolitical aesthete Hammer shows how important the political is for his work and how political questions influence both his theoretical contributions and his social involvement 3 4 5 A more recent monograph Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory Cambridge University Press 2011 reinterprets central figures from the European philosophical tradition including Kant Hegel Schopenhauer Nietzsche and Adorno in terms of their views of temporality 6 7 It is claimed that with the onset of modernity lived time engenders a sense of crisis focused on existential meaning and transitoriness 8 While recognizing this crisis these thinkers each present recommendations for how this crisis should be tackled 9 The study demonstrates Hammer s interest in re reading the canon from the vantage point of the question of modernity and modernization 10 For the publication Hammer was granted the 2012 Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy Symposium Book Award 11 Hammer s subsequent book Adorno s Modernism Art Experience and Catastrophe Cambridge University Press 2015 is a comprehensive study of Theodor W Adorno s aesthetics and its relation to metaphysics politics and culture 12 13 He is currently completing a book on philosophy and religion After the Death of God Secularization as a Philosophical Challenge from Kant to Nietzsche The University of Chicago Press forthcoming His Routledge Guidebook to Horkheimer and Adorno s Dialectic of Enlightenment co authored with Fred Rush is forthcoming from Routledge Hammer is the editor of German Idealism Contemporary Perspectives Routledge 2005 Theodor W Adorno II Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers Routledge 2015 and Kafka s The Trial Philosophical Perspectives Oxford University Press 2018 14 With Peter Gordon and Axel Honneth he edited The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School 2018 With Peter Gordon and Max Pensky he edited A Companion to Adorno Wiley Blackwell 2020 He has also co edited two German books Stanley Cavell Die Unheimlichkeit des Gewohnlichen Fischer Verlag 2002 and Pragmatik und Hermeneutik Studien zur Kulturpolitik Richard Rortys Felix Meiner Verlag 2011 Hammer has published four Norwegian monographs Adorno Gyldendal 2002 Det indre morke Et essay om melankoli Universitetsforlaget 2004 translated into Swedish Russian and Serbian Anstendighet og revolt Noen betraktninger omkring Dag Solstads forfatterskap Oktober 2011 and USA En supermakt i krise Kagge 2021 In USA En supermakt i krise he analyzes the causes of American political polarization 15 He is a frequent contributor to public debate and has several times written for New York Times The Stone From 1990 to 1996 he co edited the Norwegian journal of philosophy Agora Selected bibliography edit Wittgenstein and the Prospects for a Contemporary Literary Criticism in Robert Chodat and John Gibson eds Wittgenstein and Literary Studies New York Cambridge University Press 2023 104 25 Rorty s Approach to Kant and Hegel in Martin Mueller ed Handbuch Richard Rorty Berlin Springer Verlag 2023 The Sixties in Lydia Goehr and Jonathan Gilmore eds A Companion to Arthur C Danto Oxford Wiley Blackwell 2022 161 68 Critical Theory in C M van den Akker The Routledge Companion to Historical Theory New York Routledge 2021 98 112 Logic and Voice Stanley Cavell on Analytic Philosophy in Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 9 9 2021 105 118 Critical Theory and the Challenge of Relativism in Martin Kusch ed Routledge Handbook to Relativism New York Routledge 2020 247 55 The Antinomy of Modernism and Anti Modernism in Adorno s Negative Dialectics in Paul Giladi ed Hegel and the Frankfurt School Traditions in Dialogue New York Routledge 2021 pp 33 52 Adorno s Critique of Heidegger in Max Pensky Peter Gordon and Espen Hammer eds A Companion to Adorno Oxford Wiley Blackwell 2020 pp 473 87 Ideology and Experience The Legacy of Critical Theory in Noel Carroll Shawn Lot and Laura Teresa Di Summa Knoop eds The Palgrave Handbook for the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures New York Palgrave Macmillan 2019 315 34 Dewey Adorno and the Purpose of Art in Steven Fesmire ed Oxford Handbook of Dewey New York Oxford University Press 2019 pp 471 88 Reason Agency and History Remarks on Kant and Benjamin in History and Theory 57 3 2018 pp 426 30 Kafka s Modernism Intelligibility and Voice in The Trial in Espen Hammer ed Kafka s The Trial Philosophical Perspectives New York Oxford University Press 2018 pp 227 52 Habermas and Ordinary Language Philosophy in Peter Gordon Axel Honneth and Espen Hammer eds The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School New York Routledge 2018 pp 336 48 Literatur Fiktionalitat und Wirklichkeit in Gertrud Koch and Thomas Hilgers eds Perspektive und Fiktion Munich Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2017 pp 139 58 Husserl and the Inner Outer Distinction in Marcia Morgan and Megan Craig eds Richard J Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy Thinking the Plural London Lexington Books 2017 pp 141 56 Experience and Temporality Towards a New Paradigm of Critical Theory in Michael J Thompson ed Palgrave Handbook of Critical Theory New York Palgrave Macmillan 2017 pp 613 30 Epistemology and Self Reflection in the Young Marx in Kristin Gjesdal ed Key Debates in Nineteenth Century Philosophy London and New York Routledge 2016 pp 275 86 Happiness and Pleasure in Adorno s Aesthetics Germanic Review 4 9 2015 247 59 Adorno s Modernism Art Experience and Catastrophe Cambridge and New York Cambridge University Press 2015 ISBN 9781107121591 Literature and Politics in Noel Carrol and John Gibson eds The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature London and New York Routledge 2015 pp 451 61 Hegel as a Theorist of Secularization in Hegel Bulletin 67 2 2013 223 44 Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory Cambridge and New York Cambridge University Press 2011 ISBN 978 1 107 00500 6Adorno and the Political London New York Routledge 2005 ISBN 0 415 28913 0Stanley Cavell Skepticism Subjectivity and the Ordinary Oxford Polity Press 2002 ISBN 0 7456 2358 1References edit Interview German Idealism and Modernism 3 16 Kritikk av dommekraften Pax Forlag www pax no in Norwegian Retrieved 2023 08 16 Daniels Richard 2008 Review of Adorno and the Political Science amp Society 72 1 116 118 ISSN 0036 8237 JSTOR 40404464 Roberts Christopher 2006 Review Adorno and the Political Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 27 1 217 219 doi 10 5840 gfpj200627126 ISSN 0093 4240 Jay Martin 2006 Review of Adorno and the Political Notre Dame Philosophical Review ISSN 1538 1617 Blattner William 2011 Review of Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory Notre Dame Philosophical Review ISSN 1538 1617 Fay Brian 2013 Hammer Time History and Theory 52 1 91 109 ISSN 0018 2656 JSTOR 23351884 Temporality Friedrich Nietzsche amp Modern Times IIIIXIII 2015 05 16 Retrieved 2023 08 16 Hammer Espen 2012 On Modern Time The New York Times Opinionator Retrieved 2023 08 16 Interview Espen Hammer Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory retrieved 2023 08 16 Book Award CSCP SCPC www c scp org Retrieved 2023 08 16 Kaushall Justin Neville 2016 Review of Adorno s Modernism Art Experience and Catastrophe The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 74 3 316 318 ISSN 0021 8529 JSTOR 44510894 Hulatt Owen 2016 Review of Adorno s Modernism Art Experience and Catastrophe Notre Dame Philosophical Review ISSN 1538 1617 McGregor Rafe 2018 06 06 Review of Kafka s The Trial Philosophical Perspectives Notre Dame Philosophical Review ISSN 1538 1617 NORLA NORLA in Norwegian Bokmal Retrieved 2023 08 16 nbsp literature portal nbsp nbsp nbsp This biographical article about a Norwegian academic is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Espen Hammer amp oldid 1221557542, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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