Kierkegaard and Political Theory: Religion, Aesthetics, Politics and the Intervention of the Single Individual

ISBN-13: 9788763541541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 336 str.

Armen Avanessian; Sophie Wennerscheid

Opis

Soren Kierkegaard s radical protestant philosophy of the individualin which a person s leap of faith is favored over general ethicshas become a model for many contemporary political theorists. Thinkers such as Slavoj i ek 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 disciplinesincluding theology, sociology, philosophy, and aestheticsexamine just how crucial Kierkegaard s anti-institutional thinking has been to such efforts and to modernity as a whole.
The contributors convincingly position Kierkegaard s radical philosophy as a starting point for contemporary political theories. They show how he pioneered a modernity defined as an argumentan experienceof 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 history s 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."