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Edited by
Jon Stewart
Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate 2011. xxiii+286pp.
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 each
individual believer. His radical view seemed to many to undermine any
meaningful conception of the community, society or the state. In recent
years, however, scholars have begun to correct this image of Kierkegaard as
an apolitical thinker.
The present volume attempts to document 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. Many of the
articles show that, although Kierkegaard has been criticized for his
reactionary views on some social and political questions, he has been
appropriated as a source of insight and inspiration by a number of later
thinkers with very progressive, indeed, visionary political views.
Table of
Contents
Giorgio Agamben: State of Exception
Leif Bork Hansen
Hannah Arendt: Religion, Politics and Influence of
Kierkegaard
Marcio de Paula Gimenes
Alain Badiou: Thinking the Subject after the Death of God
Michael Burns
Judith Butler: Kierkegaard as Her Early Teacher in
Rhetoric and Parody
Gerhard Thonhauser
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
Georg 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 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 Robinson
Richard Wright:
Kierkegaard’s Influence as Existentialist Outsider
Jennifer Veninga
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Kierkegard’s International
Reception
Tomes I-III
Kierkegaard’s
Influence on Existentialism
Kierkegaard’s Influence on Theology
Tomes I-III
Kierkegaard’s Influence on Philosophy
Tomes I-III
Kierkegaard’s
Influence on Literature and Criticism
Tomes I-V
Kierkegaard’s
Influence on the Social Sciences
Kierkegaard’s
Influence on Social-Political Thought
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The
series Kierkegaard Research: Sources,
Reception and Resources is published Routledge Research, Philosophy
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