A Politics of Inwardness: Rousseau and Kierkegaard in Dialogue

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dc.contributor.advisorPieercey, Robert
dc.contributor.authorKoppert, Stefan Andrew
dc.contributor.committeememberSoifer, Eldon
dc.contributor.committeememberMelancon, Jerome
dc.contributor.externalexaminerDeCoste, Marcel
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-21T19:43:42Z
dc.date.available2019-06-21T19:43:42Z
dc.date.issued2018-08
dc.descriptionA Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Social & Political Thought, University of Regina. iii, 74 p.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis draws out some political implications of Kierkegaard’s concepts of faith, identity, and ethics. It does so by positioning Kierkegaard alongside Rousseau, whose work evinces a conflict over whether a good person can also be a good citizen. Via Rousseau, Kierkegaard’s religious individual is examined from a political perspective, putting in a new light some of the concerns that Kierkegaard’s believer is unsuitable and even noxious to political life. Kierkegaard’s own critique of Rousseau’s ideal citizen as amoral is then posited as a reason to reject Rousseau’s citizen as an alternative to the life of faith. Finally, Kierkegaard’s believer is shown to have a unique relation to politics. She participates passionately in political life as a gadfly, while maintaining a level of remove from political outcomes. Her identity does not stand or fall with the success or failure of political projects.en_US
dc.description.authorstatusStudenten
dc.description.peerreviewyesen
dc.identifier.tcnumberTC-SRU-8872
dc.identifier.thesisurlhttps://ourspace.uregina.ca/bitstream/handle/10294/8872/Koppert_Stefan_MA_SOPT_Spring2019.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10294/8872
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFaculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Reginaen_US
dc.titleA Politics of Inwardness: Rousseau and Kierkegaard in Dialogueen_US
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.departmentDepartment of Philosophy and Classicsen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineSocial and Political Thoughten_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Reginaen
thesis.degree.levelMaster'sen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (MA)en_US
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