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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMarcia Morgan’s accessible work reaffirms a historically and conceptually productive connection between Kierkegaard and several generations of critical theory from 1929 to the present. Putting away ‘once and for all’ Adorno’s influential antisocial portrait of Kierkegaard, Morgan rehabilitates existential subjectivity as a necessary critical singularity for an open multicultural and interfaith future. Kierkegaard and Critical Theory invites a partnership between radical existential praxis and critical theory requisite for a new understanding of political and religious conflicts in global postnational and postsecular conditions. -- Martin Beck Matustik, Arizona State University
Table of ContentsPreface: Why Kierkegaard and Critical Theory Now? Chapter One: Introduction to Kierkegaard and Critical Theory Chapter Two: Kierkegaard and First Generation Critical Theory: Marcuse and Adorno Chapter Three: Adorno’s Kierkegaard and the Influence of Lukács Chapter Four: The Influence of Walter Benjamin Chapter Five: Second Generation Critical Theory: Habermas, Kierkegaard, Postnationalism Chapter Six: Habermas, Kierkegaard, and Postsecularism Chapter Seven: Conclusion: Martin Matuštík and Radical Existential Praxis
