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OverviewSøren Kierkegaard's radical protestant philosophy of the individual-in which a person's leap of faith is favored over general ethics-has become a model for many contemporary political theorists. Thinkers such as Slavoj Žižek 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 disciplines-including theology, sociology, philosophy, and aesthetics-examine 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 argument-an experience-of 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sophie Wennerscheid , Armen AvanessianPublisher: Museum Tusculanum Press Imprint: Museum Tusculanum Press Dimensions: Width: 1.60cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 2.30cm Weight: 0.482kg ISBN: 9788763541541ISBN 10: 8763541548 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 01 November 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationArmen Avanessian, Free University Berlin, is founder of the research platform Speculative Poetics. Sophie Wennerscheid is professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Gent. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |