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,

However, rather than lodging simplistic attacks, Kierkegaard and Marx represent a mature and sophisticated engagement with Hegel’s thought, for which reason they remain profoundly indebted to it.

Kierkegaard understood it at the individual level of personal transformation.

but the very activity of asserting the meaninglessness of the world proves its own conclusions wrong.

the story of nineteenth-century thought reinterpreted through twentieth-century events helps explain how we got here.

Freud believed trauma was, after all, as trauma was the result of only those psychic attacks that we did not foresee.

Kierkegaard and Marx jointly criticized Hegel for the philosophical form that his work took

All told, by locating a fundamental truth, Hegel could then understand the different areas of life as embodying this truth in their own way.

“man would rather will nothingness than not will.”