
The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject

while the meaning that we assert as true might be less than the full truth, our endless attempt to create such meaning reveals underlying truths about ourselves.
Jamie Aroosi • 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
his philosophical idealism
Jamie Aroosi • The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject
The totalizing nature of Hegel’s project, coupled with the preeminent value he accorded to reason, made him an easy target.
Jamie Aroosi • The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject
However, as our understanding derives its impetus from self-preservation, it was necessarily complicit in domination, insofar as we want to understand the world so that we can control it.4 And since the world is simply too complex for intellectual confinement, this made radical ruptures—be they personal or political—a foregone conclusion.
Jamie Aroosi • The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject
Kierkegaard and Marx are not only Hegel’s most trenchant critics but also his most important appropriators.
Jamie Aroosi • The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject
Freud believed trauma was, after all, as trauma was the result of only those psychic attacks that we did not foresee.
Jamie Aroosi • The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject
However, what critics often failed to notice was that for all of Hegel’s problems—and problems do exist—his theory was ultimately a theory of freedom.
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,