Kierkegaard: The Self in Society - by Steven Shakespeare (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Kierkegaard: The Self in Society brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore Kierkegaard's continuing relevance to political and social issues. Kierkegaard is often portrayed as an out-and-out individualist with no concern for interpersonal relations. These essays not only refute this caricature, they bring out the complex nature of Kierkegaard's engagements with questions of selfhood and society. What Kierkegaard has to say about love, the church, politics and justice is shown to test the limits of what we take for granted in the modern (and postmodern) world.

Review Quotes

"The essays themselves reveal the rich possibilities (and a few difficulties) of the Kierkegaarian corpus." - Paul Martens, Religious Studies Review

About the Author

MARTIN ANDIC Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Boston ANITA CRAIG Research Fellow, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) MARK DOOLEY Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University College, Dublin PETER GEORGE held a Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Kierkegaard Research Centre BRUCE KIRMMSE is a historian of ideas who teaches in Connecticut College and at Copenhagen University ANDRAS NAGY is a novelist and playwright ROBERT L. PERKINS Chair of Philosophy, Stetson University (Florida) JAMES W. PERKINSON is a PhD candidate in Theology, University of Chicago, and Adjunct Professor in Religious Studies, Marygrove College, Detroit M.G. PIETY Lecturer, Denmark's International Study Program HUGH PYPER teaches Biblical Studies, University of Leeds ANTHONY RUDD teaches Philosophy, University of Bristol.