Kierkegaard, Statecraft and Political Theology
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 11 June 2026
- ISBN 9781350408531
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language
- Illustrations 10 bw illus 700
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Short description:
What if Sï¿1⁄2ren Kierkegaard's rejection of modern politics was not a form of spiritual quietism but of Christian resistance?
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Written against the fractured landscape of contemporary Christianity and the increasing popularity of ""political theology,"" Christopher B. Barnett wrestles with an intriguing question: what if Sï¿1⁄2ren Kierkegaard's rejection of modern politics was not a form of spiritual quietism but of Christian resistance?
Tracing the rise of the modern secular state, Barnett argues that Kierkegaard's refusal of ""the political"" coincides with the nationalistic First Schleswig War (1848-52) and, in doing so, anticipates a crisis now impossible to ignore. For Kierkegaard, obsessive political passion signals a theological inversion: as the state grows in importance, God is displaced. The upshot is not freedom but moral exhaustion-a society saturated with envy, despair, and groupthink.
Barnett also contends that Kierkegaard's reflections on politics and the modern state would find a receptive audience in a trio of twentieth-century figures: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jacques Ellul, and Renï¿1⁄2 Girard. Loosely gathered under the heading of ""apostolical radicalism,"" each of these thinkers, albeit in different ways, demonstrates that the modern state organizes contemporary life through bureaucracy, technique, propaganda, and ritualized antagonism. State politics may promise meaning, identity, and moral clarity, but as the rise of political theology shows, it ultimately absorbs all aspects of life into the sphere of politics.
Kierkegaard, Statecraft and Political Theology unleashes Kierkegaard's political thought as a live provocation, drawing unexpected lines between Christian theology and praxis and our present age of social media, tribalized politics, and permanent war. In the end, this book challenges readers to ask whether the modern state is leading to salvation-or the apocalypse.
Table of Contents:
Preface
1. The Origin and Development of the Modern State: A Survey
2. Kierkegaard's Early Critique of the State and Politics
3. Conservative Radicalism?: Political Dissent in the Wake of Kierkegaard
4. The Danger of Political Theology
Conclusion: Seeing Through the Political Illusion
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