Kierkegaard and the Political - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1443840610 ISBN 13: 9781443840613

Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012

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"The Kierkegaard scholarship industry is one of the marvels of the last twenty years of the history of ideas. Since the early 1990s, Kierkegaard has become one of the best translated, most rigorously documented and frequently cited philosophers. [...] It is remarkable how long it has taken Kierkegaard scholars to face up finally to his conservatism and general disdain for the social. It is to be hoped, therefore, that Kierkegaard and the Political - alongside Assiter's own equally confrontational Kierkegaard, Metaphysics and Political Theory (2009) - marks a watershed in transforming the standard 'Kierkegaard or the political' into a series of interventions into Kierkegaard and the political." - Daniel Whistler, Radical Philosophy, November 2013.

Reseña del editor:

Kierkegaard is no doubt a philosopher whose focus is inwardness and irreducible individuality. On the surface, he therefore seems to have little to teach us about the sphere of the political: not only was this dimension never explicitly addressed in the writings of the Danish philosopher, but also the positions he took with regard to such a domain where always marked by a strong critical attitude. Moreover, he appeared to be a conservative with regard to any movement towards democratization and equality, opposing liberal democracy as well as socialism, while not refraining from taking up explicitly misogynous positions. With this in mind, one could easily dismiss Kierkegaardian philosophy as exclusively relevant to the private domain of individual existence and irremediably unable to speak to wider concerns such as those encountered in the public dimension. However, in spite of his emphasis on singularity, or perhaps precisely because of it, over the years Kierkegaard's philosophy has given rise to interpretations that recognise its relevance for the political. For instance, the crucial importance of such ideas as self-choice, earnestness and subjective passion are easily imported from the individual sphere into the realm of the political, coming to have a bearing on notions such as responsibility and commitment. In addition, Kierkegaard's accent on the irreducibility of the individual to the universal resonates interestingly in those forms of thinking that, from the margins, call into question the domination of an exclusionary model of reason. Furthermore, his ethical writings on love are directly relevant to the political sphere. This book seeks to draw out, from a range of perspectives, some of the ways in which Kierkegaard's ideas are not only relevant, but highly significant for political thought.

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• Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1443840610
• ISBN 13: 9781443840613
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 135
• Herausgeber: Assiter Alison