Kierkegaard The Self in Society

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Kierkegaard, the Individual and Society....Pages 1-23
The Place of the World in Kierkegaard’s Ethics....Pages 24-42
Climacan Politics: Polis and Person in Kierkegaard’s Postscript....Pages 43-53
The Possibilities for Personhood in a Context of (Hitherto Unknown) Possibilities....Pages 54-69
Something Anti-social about Works of Love....Pages 70-81
Kierkegaard’s Critique of Pure Irony....Pages 82-96
Books About Nothing? Kierkegaard’s Liberating Rhetoric....Pages 97-111
Is Love of Neighbour the Love of an Individual?....Pages 112-124
Cities of the Dead: The Relation of Person and Polis in Kierkegaard’s Works of Love....Pages 125-138
Risking Responsibility: A Politics of the Émigré....Pages 139-155
A’ Socio-reading’ of the Kierkegaardian Self: Or, The Space of Lowliness in the Time of the Disciple....Pages 156-172
‘But I am almost never understood …’ Or, Who Killed Søren Kierkegaard?....Pages 173-195
Abraham the Communist....Pages 196-220
Back Matter....Pages 221-225