Political theology of Kierkegaard /
Saitya Brata Das argues that in Kierkegaard's work we find a radical eschatological critique, not only of the liberal-humanist pathos of modernity but also the political theology of Carl Schmitt, that seeks to legitimize the sovereign power of the state by an appeal to a divine or theological f...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | New perspectives in ontology.
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| Summary: | Saitya Brata Das argues that in Kierkegaard's work we find a radical eschatological critique, not only of the liberal-humanist pathos of modernity but also the political theology of Carl Schmitt, that seeks to legitimize the sovereign power of the state by an appeal to a divine or theological foundation. Relating Kierkegaard's notion of 'Christianity without Christendom' to the Schellingian eschatological critique of sovereignty, he shows how Schelling's insistence on the eschatological difference between religion and politics is transformed and further intensified in Kierkegaard's critique of historical reason. Such an exception without sovereignty, Das argues, is the very task of our contemporary time. |
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| Physical Description: | 139 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [131]-134) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1474474136 9781474474139 |