The Political Theology of Kierkegaard

Saitya Brata Das

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

The Political Theology of Kierkegaard

Saitya Brata Das

In the series New Perspectives in Ontology

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474474153

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Reconstructs a negative political eschatology through thinking of an exception without sovereignty

Intervenes in contemporary debates on post-secularism and the return to religion
Constructs a political theology that radically puts into question the logic of sovereign power
Re-thinks the place of religion as the radical outside that does not function as the legitimising principle of sovereignty in today’s world of mass consumption
Sets the agenda for re-thinking the relation of religion and politics for our contemporary historical condition

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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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
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- Main content: 160
Keywords: Philosophy

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Published: February 15, 2022
ISBN: 9781474474153