Political Theology of Kierkegaard

Saitya Brata Das teaches philosophy and literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He is a former Post-Doctorate Fellow at UFR Philosophie, Université de Marc Bloch at Strasbourg (France).

• Acknowledgements IntroductionThe closure of immanence Radicalising transcendence The logic of sovereignty Secularisation of the eschatological Formulating a question Spectres of Schelling Spectres of SchellingThe political theology of SchellingFrom Hegel to Kierkegaard Event and Existence The violence of the conceptThe spacing of existencePhenomenology of destitution The abyss of the moment Divine madness Idolatry and omnipresence The secret of responsibility Conflagration Critique of historical reason Critique of the contemporary age of reflection What is authority? Conflagration Sovereign Love Love without Sovereignty The Johannine sociality of love Kierkegaard’s Wink: an indicative ethics Critique of politics Who is my neighbour? The law of love Bibliography

Aa a sequel to Saitya Brata Das’s work on the Political Theology of Schelling, his current work on Kierkegaard, is an attempt to bring to contemporary discussions an open-ended and negative approach to religion and politics. The sovereign power of the political and the theological is called into question eschatologically in and through the work of the existential philosopher Kierkegaard.