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...
Soren Kierkegaard s radical protestant philosophy of the individualin which a person s leap of faith is favored over general ethicshas become a model ...