been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Frankfurt and held professorships at the University of Oslo and the University of Essex (UK). He has also been a Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research and the University of Pennsylvania. Hammer is the author of Stanley Cavell: Skepticism, Subjectivity, and the Ordinary (Oxford: Polity Press, 2002); Adorno and the Political (London and New York: Routledge, 2006); Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011); and Adorno’s Modernism: Art, Experience, and Catastrophe (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015). In addition to his Norwegian translation of Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment (Oslo: Pax, 1995) and four Norwegian monographs on philosophy, art, and politics (the most recent being an analysis of the social and political divisions in the US), he is the editor of German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives (London and New York: Routledge, 2007); Theodor W. Adorno II: Critical Assessment of Leading Philosophers (New York: Routledge, 2015); and Kafka’s The Trial: Philosophical Perspectives (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). He is a co-editor of Stanley Cavell: Die Unheimlichkeit des Gewöhnlichen (Frankfurt: Fischer Verlag, 2002); Pragmatik und Hermeneutik: Studien zur Kulturpolitik Richard Rortys (Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 2011); The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School (New York: Routledge, 2018); and A Companion to Adorno (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020). He is currently working on a book about philosophical responses to secularization in Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, and Nietzsche.