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List of Contributors viiPreface xiAcknowledgements xviiList of Abbreviations xix

giorgio agamben: state of exception Leif Bork Hansen 1

hannah arendt: Religion, Politics and the Influence of Kierkegaard Marcio Gimenes de Paula 29

alain badiou: thinking the subject after the death of god Michael O’ Neill Burns 41

Judith butler: Kierkegaard as her early teacher in rhetoric and Parody Gerhard Thonhauser 53

Jürgen habermas: social selfhood, religion, and Kierkegaard J. Michael Tilley 73

martin luther King, Jr.: Kierkegaard’s Works of Love, King’s Strength to Love Nigel Hatton 89

györgy lukács: from a tragic love story to a tragic life story András Nagy 107

herbert marcuse: social critique, haecker, and Kierkegaardian individualism J. Michael Tilley 137

Kierkegaard’s Influence on Social-Political Thoughtvi

José ortega y gasset: meditations on “Provincial romanticism” Robert Puchniak 147

Jean-Paul sartre: between Kierkegaard and marx Michael O’Neill Burns 159

carl schmitt: zones of exception and appropriation Bartholomew Ryan 177

eric voegelin: Politics, history, and the anxiety of existence Peter Brickey LeQuire 209

cornel west: Kierkegaard and the construction of a “blues Philosophy” Marcia C. Robinson 231

richard wright: Kierkegaard’s Influence as Existentialist Outsider Jennifer Elisa Veninga 257

Index of Persons 275Index of Subjects 283