1st Edition
Volume 14: Kierkegaard's Influence on Social-Political Thought
Edited By Jon Stewart
Copyright 2011
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
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While scholars have long recognized Kierkegaard's important contributions to fields such as ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of religion, philosophical psychology, and hermeneutics, it was usually thought that he had nothing meaningful to say about society or politics. Kierkegaard has been traditionally characterized as a Christian writer who placed supreme importance on the inward religious life of... Read more
Contents: Preface; Giorgio Agamben: state of exception, Leif Bork Hansen; Hannah Arendt: religion, politics and influence of Kierkegaard, Marcio Gimenes de Paula; Alain Badiou: thinking the subject after the death of God, Michael O'Neill Burns; Judith Butler: Kierkegaard as her early teacher in rhetoric and parody, Gerhard Tonhauser; Jürgen Habermas: social selfhood, religion, and Kierkegaard, J. Michael Tilley; Martin Luther King Jr: Kierkegaard's Works of Love, King's Strength to Love, Nigel Hatton; György Lukács: from a tragic love story to a tragic life story, András Nagy; Herbert Marcuse: social critique, Haecker and Kierkegaardian individualism, J. Michael Tilley; José Ortega y Gasset: meditations on 'provincial romanticism', Robert Puchniak; Jean-Paul Sartre: between Kierkegaard and Marx, Michael O'Neill Burns; Carl Schmitt: zones of exception and appropriation, Bartholomew Ryan; Eric Voegelin: politics, history, and the anxiety of existence, Peter Brickey LeQuire; Cornel West: Kierkegaard and the construction of a 'blues philosophy', Marcia C. Robinson; Richard Wright: Kierkegaard's influence as existentialist outsider, Jennifer Elisa Veninga; Indexes.
Biography
Jon Stewart is an Associate Research Professor in the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
