The Political Theology of Kierkegaard by Das, Saitya Brata;

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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.

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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.

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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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