Kierkegaard’s Indirect Politics

Interludes with Lukács, Schmitt, Benjamin and Adorno

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ID19928837
AuthorsBartholomew Ryan (0000-0002-9924-9791, corresponding author)
Year2014
Pages302
Publication date2014-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueKierkegaard's Indirect Politics (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789401210607
OpenAlexW4231589076
ISBN9789401210607
Open LibraryOL52539772M
LanguageEN
Citations received3

This book argues that a radical political gesture can be found in Søren Kierkegaard's writings. The chapters navigate an interdisciplinary landscape by placing Kierkegaard's passionate thought in conversation with the writings of Georg Lukács, Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno. At the heart of the book's argument is the concept of "indirect politics," which names a negative space between methods, concepts, and intellectual acts in the work of Kierkegaard, as well as marking the dynamic relations between Kierkegaard and the aforementioned thinkers. Kierkegaard's indirect politics is a set of masks that displaces identities from one field to the next: theology masks politics; law masks theology; political theory masks philosophy; and psychology masks literary approaches to truth. As reflected in Lukács, Schmitt, Benjamin, and Adorno, this book examines how Kierkegaard's indirect politics sets into relief three significant motifs: intellectual non-conformism, indirect communication in and through ambiguous identities, and negative dialectics

Argument (complex analysis) · Conversation · Critical theory · Dialectic · Epistemology · Linguistics · Political science · Political theology · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology

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