Kierkegaard And Political Theology

Author : Saitya Brata Das
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474474153

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Political Theology of Kierkegaard by Saitya Brata Das Pdf

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 legitimise 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.

Author : Roberto Sirvent,Silas Morgan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498224826

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Kierkegaard and Political Theology by Roberto Sirvent,Silas Morgan Pdf

The nature of Kierkegaard’s political legacy is complicated by the religious character of his writings. Exploring Kierkegaard’s relevancy for this political-theological moment, this volume offers trans-disciplinary and multi-religious perspectives on Kierkegaard studies and political theology. Privileging contemporary philosophical and political-theological work that is based on Kierkegaard, this volume is an indispensable resource for Kierkegaard scholars, theologians, philosophers of religion, ethicists, and critical researchers in religion looking to make sense of current debates in the field. While this volume shows that Kierkegaard’s theological legacy is a thoroughly political one, we are left with a series of open questions as to what a Kierkegaardian interjection into contemporary political theology might look like. And so, like Kierkegaard’s writings, this collection of essays is an argument with itself, and as such, will leave readers both edified and scratching their heads—for all the right reasons.

Author : Sylvia Walsh Perkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0881467294

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Truth Is Subjectivity by Sylvia Walsh Perkins Pdf

Author : Armen Avanessian,Sophie Wennerscheid
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788763541541

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Kierkegaard and Political Theory by Armen Avanessian,Sophie Wennerscheid Pdf

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 Kierkegaard and Political Theory, 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 the starting point for contemporary political theory. 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. Armen Avanessian is founder of the research platform Speculative Poetics at the Free University Berlin. Sophie Wennerscheid is professor of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Ghent.

Author : Saitya Brata Das
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666761535

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Political Theology of Life by Saitya Brata Das Pdf

Taking up the work of Meister Eckhart, F. W. J. von Schelling, and Søren Kierkegaard, Political Theology of Life formulates the task of an unconditional affirmation of life. Such a political theology consists of constructing a kenotic eschatology, which puts into question any political attempt to justify and legitimize any world-historical hegemony on a theological foundation. The work thereby argues that in today’s neoliberal-secular world of narcissistic mass-consumption in the age of extreme capitalism, such an affirmation of life—released from the grasp of sovereign power—is the highest ethico-religious task of our time. The work shows that each of these thinkers—Meister Eckhart at the epochal closure of the medieval world, and Schelling and Kierkegaard from the heart of the epochal condition of modernity—has exposed open a dimension of infinitude and manifestation that can be truly inspiring for us; that is to say, in the abandonment of all worldly attributes lies a receptivity to the highest gift of beatitude, an opening to the infinitude that sanctifies our worldly existence, which is a radical gift arriving from an origin without origin and without foundation, a gift that does not have to be anchored in the nomothetic operation of worldly hegemonies. Illumination Book Award winner in poetry https://illuminationawards.com/20/2023-medalists

Author : Stephen Backhouse
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780310520894

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Kierkegaard by Stephen Backhouse Pdf

An accessible, expert introduction to one of the greatest minds of nineteenth century. Whether you're completely new to him, or if you're already familiar with his work, Kierkegaard: A Single Life presents a fresh understanding of his life and thought. Kierkegaard was a brilliant and enigmatic loner whose ideas permeated culture, shaped modern Christianity, and influenced people as diverse as Franz Kafka and Martin Luther King Jr. Though few people today have read his work, that lack of familiarity with the real Kierkegaard is changing with this biography by scholar Stephen Backhouse, who clearly presents the man's mind as well as the acute sensitivity behind Kierkegaard's books. Drawing on biographical material that has newly come to light, Kierkegaard: A Single Life introduces his many guises—the thinker, the lover, the recluse, the writer, the controversialist—in prose as compelling and fluid as a novel and pursues clarity to long-standing questions about him: What made this Danish theologian so controversial and influential? Why were so many people drawn to his books, even if they didn't understand what they were reading? Can his complicated relationship with the Church and religion be untangled? Or, for that matter, what about his complicated—at times almost paradoxical—relationship with every sphere of life from politics to poetry? To be considered everything from a great intellect to a dandy, from a martyr to a "false messiah" is no mean feat, and this biography sheds light on Søren Kierkegaard as he was with empathy and humor. Included is an appendix presenting an overview of each of Kierkegaard's works, for the scholar and lay reader alike.

Author : Dennis Vanden Auweele,Miklos Vassányi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000064810

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Past and Present Political Theology by Dennis Vanden Auweele,Miklos Vassányi Pdf

This book demonstrates how discussions of Political Theology have been a constant feature throughout philosophical modernity and that they continue to impact contemporary political debates. By tracing the historical roots and detailing the contemporary outworking of Political Theology in Europe, it contends that this growing field requires a broader "canon" in order for it to mature. Political Theology is shown here to be about the diversity of relationships between religious beliefs and political orientations. First engaging with historical debates, chapters re-examine the relationship between personal conviction and societal orientation on such topics as the will to believe, evil, individualism, the relationship between church and state, and the relationship between belief and natural science. The volume then establishes the relevance of these debates for the present day. As such, it invites engagement on the back and forth between religion and politics in a liberal democracy and a communist state, on how communitarianism relates to religious language, on the diversity of Christian and Jewish political theology, and the politics of toleration. By broadening out the field of Political Theology this book offers the reader a more nuanced understanding of its sustained influence on public life. As such it will be of interest to academics working in Political Theology, but also Theology, Philosophy and Political Science more generally.

Author : Stephen Backhouse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199604722

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Kierkegaard's Critique of Christian Nationalism by Stephen Backhouse Pdf

'Christian nationalism' refers to the set of ideas in which belief in the development and superiority of one's national group is combined with, or underwritten by, Christian theology and practice. This study examines Kierkegaard's critique of Christian nationalism in relation to political science theories of religious nationalism.

Author : Stephen Backhouse
Publisher : Zondervan Reflective
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0310120195

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Kierkegaard - Softcover by Stephen Backhouse Pdf

Author : Marinos Diamantides
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748697793

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Political Theology by Marinos Diamantides Pdf

Can secularisation in the legal and political domains settle modernitys scores with religion?Anton SchAtz and Marinos Diamantides provide a genealogical mapping of the universalisation/secularisation thesis that is both widely saluted and mistrusted as master narrative of modern political and normative history. Questions the outdated suggestions of Carl Schmitts political theologyBuilds upon a refined version of Giorgio Agambens close-reading of Christian government as managementIdentifies Western-Christian tensions within jurisprudenceConcludes that what the Wests secular universality is passing off as 'politics' or 'law' is really an attempt to manage its own dwindling primacy

Author : Derek Brown
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438495873

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Political Theology after Metaphysics by Derek Brown Pdf

In Political Theology after Metaphysics, Derek Brown argues that theologians and religious believers should pursue a revolutionary political theology that can address racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression in practical ways, rather than following the sorts of metaphysical theologies that have dominated theological discourse since at least the scholastic period. Relying primarily on Marxist and deconstructive critiques of the ideological function of metaphysics, the book engages a wide range of classical and contemporary figures, including Karl Marx, Søren Kierkegaard, Carl Schmitt, Jacques Derrida, James Cone, Chantal Mouffe, Cornel West, Martin Hägglund, and Karl Ove Knausgård. These engagements are attentive not only to the ways in which these figures critique or defend metaphysics, but also to the ways in which they perform political theologies responsive to those critiques. While the so-called postmodern critique of metaphysics—which Brown problematizes as insufficiently critical of political ideology—is often read as a challenge to religion, Brown’s readings suggest that the deconstructive and Marxist critiques of metaphysics present an opportunity for the reemergence of a historical and politically engaged form of religion.

Author : Saitya Brata Das
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666784299

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Of Prayers and Tears by Saitya Brata Das Pdf

Eschatology is generally understood to be the doctrine of last things, but understood rigorously eschatology actually speaks of the inauguration of a new, redeemed world to come and of the coming of God himself. To speak of eschatology in this way is to speak of the very possibility of the future in the radical sense, the future that is not a mere attenuated variation of presence. Eschatology speaks of a coming that comes only to pass away into a past; rather it speaks of the coming of the Holy itself, which is the very origin of time and is thus the event par excellence. This book attempts to make manifest the question that eschatology itself poses: that eschaton has something essential to do with the beginning. This work intervenes in contemporary debates on "postsecularism" and "the return to religion." By introducing the question of eschatology anew, this book reintroduces the problem of transcendence that effectively calls into question the logic of sovereign power and rethinks the place of ''religion'' as an affirmation of what lies beyond, which does not function as the legitimizing principle of sovereignty in today's world of mass consumption.

Author : Timothy Polk
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0865545391

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The Biblical Kierkegaard by Timothy Polk Pdf

Placing Kierkegaard firmly within the Augustinian tradition of reading Scripture according to the Rules of faith and love, Polk brings Kierkegaard's biblical hermeneutics into conversation with current postliberal narrative theology, speech-act theory, canon-contextual criticism, reader-response criticism, feminist theology, and political theology.

Author : George Connell,C. Stephen Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015024892880

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Foundations of Kierkegaard's Vision of Community by George Connell,C. Stephen Evans Pdf

Author : Andrew Shanks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521403214

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Hegel's Political Theology by Andrew Shanks Pdf

This study begins with an examination of Milan Kundera's concept of 'kitsch', which is defined and investigated in his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being. The author here describes this concept as 'the cliché which bonds the crowd together - the means by which the thought control of the hierarchy or peer group is dressed up, internalised, and rendered seductive'. Dr Shanks relates kitsch and its dangers to the thought of Hegel, whom he regards as a religious reformer wrestling with the issue at the deepest level. What, he asks, is required to rescue the Christian gospel from its pervasive corruption, which takes the form either of ecclesiastical authoritarianism, or else a privatized, 'atomistic' spirituality? The author shows Hegel's answer to be twofold. It involves, on the one hand, a decisive theological re-evaluation of the secular political realm; and on the other, a philosophical clarification of the inner truth of the Incarnation - a strictly 'inclusive' christology. This book sets out to show the centrality of such a practical concern to Hegel's systematic theoretical enterprise as a whole.