Espen Hammer is professor of philosophy at Temple University, Philadelphia. He has lived more than 20 years in USA — in New York and Philadelphia. He has published three books in Norwegian: Theodor Adorno (Gyldendal 2002); Det indre mørke: et essay om melankoli (Universitetsforlaget 2004); Anstendighet og revolt: noen betraktninger omkring Dag Solstads forfatterskap (Oktober Forlag 2011). He has published the following academic books: Stanley Cavell: Skepticism, Subjectivity and the Ordinary (Routledge 2006); Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory (Routledge 2018); Adorno’s Modernism: Art, Experience and Catastrophe (Cambridge University Press 2015).