Kierkegaard and the Matter of Philosophy: A Fractured Dialectic (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781783482030)

S ren Kierkegaard is often cast as the forefather of existentialism and an anti-Hegelian proponent of the single individual. Yet this book calls these traditional characterizations into question by arguing that Kierkegaard offers not only a systematic critique of idealist philosophy, but more surprisingly, a political ontology that is paradoxically at home in the context of twenty-first-century philosophical and political thought.

Through a close consideration of his authorship in the context of nineteenth-century German idealism, Michael O'Neill Burns argues that Kierkegaard develops an ontology, anthropology and theory of the political that are outcomes of his critical appropriation of the philosophical projects of Hegel, Schelling, and Fichte. While starting out in the philosophical concerns of the nineteenth century, the book offers an interpretation of Kierkegaard that shows his relevance to philosophers and political theorists in the twenty-first century.

Author: Michael O'Neill Burns
ISBN-10: 1783482036
ISBN-13: 9781783482030
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2015
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d