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.