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