Publication Date: October 2019 'Any spiritual life must tremble with the anxiety of freedom, even in the most profound fulfillment of our aspirations...' Would Heaven be boring? Do you want to live forever? Join the Swedish philosopher Martin Hägglund on an original inquiry into the deepest questions of existence. On the one hand, all the great religions try to persuade us that immortality is just around the corner. Yet capitalism, our other spiritual enemy, constantly beguiles us to steal it. Via profound engagements with some of the greatest philosophers and theologians in history, including Aristotle, St Augustine, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Hegel and Marx, Hägglund takes aim at these two great adversaries, religion and capitalism, stripping away their many subtle illusions to return us to life itself in all its fragility. The final lesson is this: existence is a collective project. In illuminating this profound truth, This Life announces itself as the first great work of existentialist philosophy of the 21st century.