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About 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 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.
- He has also written Det indre mørke, about the history of the concept of melancholia.
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