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.

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