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.

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
• Theodor W. Adorno Gyldendal 2002 ISBN 82-05-30075-5
• 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