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Kierkegaard and Political Theory - Religion, Aesthetics, Politics and the Intervention of the Single Individual (Paperback)
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Kierkegaard and Political Theory - Religion, Aesthetics, Politics and the Intervention of the Single Individual (Paperback)
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Soren Kierkegaards radical protestant philosophy of the individual
-- in which a persons leap of faith is favoured over general ethics
-- has become a model for many contemporary political theorists.
Thinkers such as Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou have drawn on its
revolutionary spirit to position truth above the constraints of
political systems. In Kierkegaard and Political Theory,
contributors from a wide range of disciplines -- including
theology, sociology, philosophy, and aesthetics -- examine just how
crucial Kierkegaards anti-institutional thinking has been to such
efforts and to modernity as a whole. The contributors convincingly
position Kierkegaards radical philosophy as the starting point for
contemporary political theory. They show how he pioneered a
modernity defined as an argument -- an experience -- of the
impossibility of rationally comprehending a system of thinking.
They show how religious and aesthetic experiences function as a
response to this impossibility, how their coherence in politics
must always be questioned, especially in historys extreme example:
totalitarianism. Engaging this and many other subjects, they
provide a compelling new line in Kierkegaard studies that
illuminates new contours of our political thought.
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