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Soren 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 21st-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 21st century.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Kierkegaard and the Matter of Philosophy
• Subtitle: A Fractured Dialectic
• Author: Michael O'Neill Burns
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9781783482023
• ISBN: 1783482028
• ID: 06401242
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
• Weight: 500 g
• Dimensions: 238 × 153 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. January 2015

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