Kierkegaard as an Antimodern Moralist: Re-Thinking “Socio-Political” Categories in Recent Kierkegaard Scholarship
The aim of this paper is to reassess Kierkegaard’s position as a “sociopolitical” thinker. In Section I the limitations of certain prevailing interpretations of Kierkegaard’s socio-political thought are discussed. In Sections II and III I advance a hermeneutic label which I believe to be more adequa...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2016
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Kierkegaard studies. Yearbook
Year: 2016, Volume: 2016, Issue: 1, Pages: 51-74 |
| IxTheo Classification: | TJ Modern history VA Philosophy ZC Politics in general |
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| Summary: | The aim of this paper is to reassess Kierkegaard’s position as a “sociopolitical” thinker. In Section I the limitations of certain prevailing interpretations of Kierkegaard’s socio-political thought are discussed. In Sections II and III I advance a hermeneutic label which I believe to be more adequate to his thought, that of “antimodern.” Finally, in Section IV I draw some general conclusions with regard to the importance-not only for socio-political studies of Kierkegaard but also for other approaches-of understanding his place in the tradition of thought to which he belongs: that of the “moralists.” |
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| ISSN: | 1612-9792 |
| Contains: | In: Kierkegaard studies. Yearbook
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/kierke-2016-0106 |