#1309 Espen Hammer: Death of God: Secularization as a Philosophical Challenge from Kant to Nietzsche
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Aspen Hammer. He's professor of philosophy at Temple University, and today we're going to talk about his book After the Death of God, Secularization as a Philosophical Challenge from Kant. to Nietzsche.
So Dr. Hammer, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to everyone. Thanks a lot for having me, Ricardo. So before we get into the sort of uh philosophical history that you explore in the book in terms of how particularly in the modern western tradition uh philosophers have explored
religion and secularization. Let's start perhaps with the definition here. So what is secularization and what is the secularization thesis? Yeah, that's a good question to start with. The book is called After the Death of God, which sounds very dramatic, but it is
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