Bartholomew Ryan is currently a postdoctoral fellow (2011- ) at the Instituto de Filosofia da Nova, New University of Lisbon, Portugal. He holds degrees from Aarhus University, Denmark (PhD), University College, Dublin (MA), and Trinity College, Dublin (1999). He was visiting lecturer at the European College of Liberal Arts in Berlin (2007-2011) and Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford (2010), and was a guest scholar at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre in Copenhagen (2007 and 2005) and Hong Kierkegaard Library at St. Olaf College, Minnesota (2005). He has written extensively on Kierkegaard, and also published articles on Nietzsche, Pessoa, Joyce, Shakespeare and Schmitt.

• Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Editorial Foreword Preface by George Pattison IntroductionOne: Crossroads of Revolution and ReactionTwo: Inwardness as an Expression for Revolutionary Praxis (Georg Lukács)Three: Zones of Exception (Carl Schmitt)Four: Loafers of History (Walter Benjamin)Five: Out of the Petrified Primordial Landscape (Theodor Adorno) ConclusionNotesBibliographyAbout the AuthorIndex