Occasional decisiveness
Exception, decision and resistance in Kierkegaard and Schmitt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12717634 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Birte Löschenkohl (0000-0002-7186-9657, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89-107 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-09 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-8851 • E-ISSN: 1741-2730 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1474885115619301 |
| OpenAlex | W2406790958 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 10 |
This article explores the political potential of Kierkegaard's Repetition and develops a model of non-sovereign agency by analysing the figure of the ‘young man’, the main protagonist of the book. A curious reference in Schmitt's Political Theology serves as a cue for exploring Repetition through contrast with Schmitt's notions of sovereignty, decision and exception, as well as his critique of occasionalism in Political Romanticism. As in the case of Schmitt's sovereign, the young man's conflict is centred on the question of the exception. But by contrast to the former, the young man struggles with the exception from a position of opposition to the powers that govern. Furthermore, the exception in Repetition does not seek to stabilise a given order in the face of a threat, but, rather, to destabilise and transform order. The perspective offered facilitates a shift from thinking the exception as a state of exception, a concept that mostly concerns state politics, to an exception from the state. Kierkegaard's Repetition is thus shown to be relevant for conceptualising transformative agency from a position of marginalisation and exclusion from the hegemonic political order
Epistemology · Hegemony · Opposition (politics · Political philosophy · Political science · Political theology · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · State of exception · Law · Literature and Cultural Memory · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Political Theology and Sovereignty
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |