The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject
“Marx and Kierkegaard on Alienation,”
Jamie Aroosi • The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject
James L. Marsh has written a few articles exploring the relationship between Kierkegaard and Marx,
Jamie Aroosi • The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject
situates Kierkegaard and Marx as the fulcrum upon which eighteenth-century thought transitioned into the twentieth century.
Jamie Aroosi • The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject
In the case of Kierkegaard, this research is more recent but of equal importance. For instance, see Jon Stewart, Kierkegaard’s Relations to Hegel Reconsidered,
Jamie Aroosi • The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject
the success of each depends on the success of the other,
Jamie Aroosi • The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject
the unity of their thought also promises to serve as a way to help synthesize the diverse strands of thought that flourished in their wake, so that the Kierkegaard-inspired project of self-transformation can be wed to the Marx-inspired project of political transformation.
Jamie Aroosi • The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject
Just as Hegel saw an underlying unity in religion and politics, Kierkegaard’s thought offers a comprehensive and radical philosophy of self-knowledge, while Marx offers the complementary political philosophy.
Jamie Aroosi • The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject
It is the task of the present work to reunite these divergent discourses, demonstrating that Kierkegaard and Marx are simply two sides of the same coin.
Jamie Aroosi • The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject
Kierkegaard understood it at the individual level of personal transformation.