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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: O'Neill Burns, Michael. Kierkegaard and the matter of philosophy (DLC) 2014036548 (OCoLC)890068183 |
Named Person: | Søren Kierkegaard; Søren Kierkegaard |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael O'Neill Burns |
ISBN: | 9781783482047 1783482044 |
OCLC Number: | 899264771 |
Description: | 1 online resource. |
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. |
Series Title: | Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political. |
Responsibility: | Michael O'Neill Burns. |
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Burns presents us with a radical, political, materialist Kierkegaard. His argument is bold, counter-intuitive - and utterly persuasive. This book deserves to set the agenda for Kierkegaard studies for years to come. -- Steven Shakespeare, Liverpool Hope University Michael Burns, in his magisterial Kierkegaard and the Matter of Philosophy, achieves nothing less than doing for Kierkegaard what Slavoj Zizek has done for Hegel. While remaining faithful to core components of Kierkegaard's philosophy, Burns sweeps aside accumulated received readings of him and constructs in their place the figure of a Kierkegaard deeply and undeniably relevant to today's philosophical landscape as colored by innovative revivals of the legacies of German idealism and Marxism. Burns's transcendental materialist Kierkegaard promises fundamentally to transform our understandings both of the past two centuries of European philosophy as well as of contemporary Continental metaphysics. -- Adrian Johnston, Professor of Philosophy, University of New Mexico Burns' book is a seminal contribution to Kierkegaard scholarship. He convincingly shows against some widespread misconceptions that Kierkegaard's thought implies a powerful contribution to ontology and to social and political thought. In addition to this novel approach to Kierkegaard, Burns defends the most relevant aspects of Kierkegaard in the context of contemporary philosophy. A very good book! -- Markus Gabriel, Professor of Philosophy, University of Bonn "[I]t is excellently written, well sculpted, and [...] makes Kierkegaard relevant in today's philosophical landscape by offering contemporary philosophers a "materialist Kierkegaard" that goes beyond our traditional readings of one of the pillars of existentialism. [T]his book is a must read" APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy Read more...

