Saitya Brata Das

The Political Theology of Kierkegaard

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Produktbeschreibung

Reconstructs a negative political eschatology through a thinking of exception without sovereignty Saitya Brata Das argues that in Kierkegaard's work we find a radical eschatological critique of the liberal-humanist pathos of modernity 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. Das argues that such an exception without sovereignty is the crucial task of our age. Saitya Brata Das teaches literature and philosophy at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of The Political Theology of Schelling (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781474474139
• ISBN-10: 1474474136
• Artikelnr.: 59176048

Autorenporträt

Saitya Brata Das teaches philosophy and literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He is a former Post-Doctorate Fellow at UFR Philosophie, Université de Marc Bloch at Strasbourg (France).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The closure of immanence
2. Radicalising transcendence
3. The logic of sovereignty
4. Secularisation of the eschatological
5. Formulating a question
1. Spectres of Schelling
1. Spectres of Schelling
2. The political theology of Schelling
3. From Hegel to Kierkegaard
2. Event and Existence
1. The violence of the concept
2. The spacing of existence
3. Phenomenology of destitution
4. The abyss of the moment
5. Divine madness
6. Idolatry and omnipresence
7. The secret of responsibility
3. Conflagration
1. Critique of historical reason
2. Critique of the contemporary age of reflection
3. What is authority?
4. Conflagration
4. Sovereign Love
1. Love without Sovereignty
2. The Johannine sociality of love
3. Kierkegaard's Wink: an indicative ethics
4. Critique of politics
5. Who is my neighbour?
6. The law of love
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