Ebook: Kierkegaard and Political Theology

Introduction / Silas Morgan and Roberto Sirvent -- Part 1. Kierkegaard and political theology -- Destitution of sovereignty : the political theology of Soren Kierkegaard / Saitya Brata Das -- Kierkegaard and the critique of political theology / Anthony Rudd -- Johannes Climacus and the Two Kierkegaards : strategies for theology and social engagement / David Lappano -- Politics as indirect communication in the moment and the attack upon "christendom" / Stephen Backhouse -- Part 2. Kierkegaard and the politics of faith, hope, and love -- Downward bound : the knight of faith and the politics of grace / Heather C. Ohaneson -- Searching for a secular god : a prolegomena to a political theory of love / Jamie Aroosi -- Equality : a proposal rooted in Kierkegaards theological anthropology and theology of love / Natalia Marandiuc -- Loving the ones we see : Kierkegaards neighbor-love and the politics of pluralism / Jennifer Elisa Veninga -- Kierkegaard, Badiou, and christian hope / Vincent Lloyd -- Part 3. Kierkegaard and the politics of philosophy -- The time is out of joint : on social ontology and criticism in Kierkegaard and Heidegger / James D. Reid and Rick Anthony Furtak -- Kierkegaard's "single individual" and Hardt and Negri's "multitude : theological resources for a post-imperial political subjectivity / Silas Morgan and Kyle Roberts -- Tagore and Kierkegaard as resources for political theology / Abrahim H. Khan -- Theater, theology, and empowerment : Kierkegaard and Boal / Helene Russell -- Politicizing Kierkegaardian repetition : On Schmitt and Kierkegaard / Dana Lloyd -- Lost expectations : on Derrida's Abraham / Mary-Jane Rubenstein -- Part 4. Kierkegaard and the politics of theology -- On whose authority? Soren Kierkegaard and Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz on christian truth-witnessing / Mariana Alessandri -- Politics of the church, hidden and revealed, in Soren Kierkegaard and John Howard Yoder / Jason A. Mahn -- How (Not) to write a Kierkegaardian political theology : between Niebuhr and Levinas on anxiety, faith, and love/ Howard Pickett -- The spotlight and the "courage to be an absolute nobody" : toward a Kierkegaardian-Chestertonian political theology of ego / Roberto Sirvent and Duncan Reyburn -- Part 5. Kierkegaard and the politics of communication -- Kierkegaard's Dagdriver : loafing as a means of resistance to the technological, media, and consumer system / Bartholomew Ryan -- Soren Kierkegaard, indirect communication, and the strength of weak authority : a reflection on parliamentary democracy / Burkhard Conrad, OPL -- Sociological categories and the journey to selfhood : from the crowd to community / Matthew D. Kirkpatrick -- Kierkegaard and the politics of time / Kara N. Slade.;The nature of Kierkegaard's political legacy is complicated by the religious character of his writings. Exploring Kierkegaard's relevancy for this political-theological moment, this volume offers trans-disciplinary and multi-religious perspectives on Kierkegaard studies and political theology. Privileging contemporary philosophical and political-theological work that is based on Kierkegaard, this volume is an indispensable resource for Kierkegaard scholars, theologians, philosophers of religion, ethicists, and critical researchers in religion looking to make sense of current debates in the field. While this volume shows that Kierkegaard's theological legacy is a thoroughly political one, we are left with a series of open questions as to what a Kierkegaardian interjection into contemporary political theology might look like. And so, like Kierkegaard's writings, this collection of essays is an argument with itself, and as such, will leave readers both edified and scratching their heads--for all the right reasons. -- Amazon.com.