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Author O'Neill Burns, Michael

Title Kierkegaard and the matter of philosophy : a fractured dialectic / Michael O'Neill Burns
Published New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2014

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Series Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political
Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political
Contents Acknowledgements; Notes on Sources; Introduction; Notes; Chapter One: Idealism Before Kierkegaard; 1.1 J.G. Fichte; 1.2 F.W.J. Schelling; 1.3 G.W.F. Hegel; 1.4 Contemporary Readings of Idealism; 1.5 Conclusion; Notes; Chapter Two: Anxiety and Ontology; 2.1 The Concept of Irony; 2.2 Actuality; 2.3 An Introduction to Anxiety; 2.4 The Instant; 2.5 Freedom; 2.6 Good and Evil; 2.7 A Fractured Dialectic; 2.8 Early Political Considerations; Notes; Chapter Three: Spirit and Society; 3.1 Despair; 3.2 Faith and Paradox; 3.3 Reflection and Consciousness; 3.4 God and Transcendence
3.5 The Matter of Despair3.6 From the Psychological to the Social; Notes; Chapter Four: Anxious Politics; 4.1 Previous Political Readings; 4.2 The Present Age; 4.3 The Age of Revolution; 4.4 Political Ontology; Notes; Chapter Five: The Fractured Dialectic in Recent European Materialism; 5.1 Sartre's Materialism; 5.2 Critique of Dialectical Reason; 5.3 Kierkegaard and Sartre; 5.4 Badiou and the Paradox of the Event; 5.5 Badiou and Kierkegaard; 5.6 Badiou's Theories of Subjectivity; 5.7 Kierkegaard and Badiou; 5.8 Kierkegaard contra Badiou; Notes; Conclusion; What Is the Matter of God?
Love's WorkNotes; Bibliography; Index
Summary This book offers an examination of the political and ontological significance of the authorship of Søren Kierkegaard in relation to German Idealism and contemporary European philosophy. <br />
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.
SUBJECT Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855. fast (OCoLC)fst00037558
Subject Idealism, German.
Continental philosophy -- Europe -- History -- 21st century
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Continental philosophy.
Idealism, German.
Europe.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781783482047
1783482044