Volume 14: Kierkegaard's Influence on Social-Political Thought

ISBN-13: 9781409434917 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 312 str.

Jon Stewart

Opis

This volume documents the use of Kierkegaard by later thinkers in the context of social-political thought. It shows how his ideas have been employed by very different kinds of writers and activists with very different political goals and agendas.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Jon Stewart is an Associate Research Professor in the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.