Kierkegaard and Critical Theory

Informationen zum Autor Dr Marcia Morgan is a British Caribbean woman. She is married with children and works for Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service and is a senior lecturer at the University of East London. Marcia volunteers as a Race Ambassador and Social Mobility Ambassador for the Ministry of Justice, advocating for the application of an intersectional approach to staff data analysis. She is also a level 7 qualified Executive Coach and Mentor. In her spare time, she enjoys cross country running and reading contemporary multicultural romance novels. Klappentext Kierkegaard's impact on the development of critical theory has received scant study; it is the aim of the book to fill this scholarly lacuna. Kierkegaard and Critical Theory seeks to expose the complexity not only of Kierkegaard but of the Frankfurt School and their cohort, highlighting the ways in which the Danish religious thinker has been redeemed for a multiculture activist ethics in spirit with the fundamental aims of the Frankfurt School. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: 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

Product details

• Authors: Marcia Morgan, Marcia S. Morgan, Morgan Marcia
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2012
• EAN: 9780739167786
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-6778-6
• No. of pages: 140
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -