Contributions for considering the possibility of all life configurations
1. Perhaps it was a symptom of the times, yet it is surprising that in 1846, just a little over a year before the Communist Manifesto began to take shape,2 Søren Kierkegaard wrote another text with singular posterity, The Present Age.3 This small work of cultural criticism was part of a surprisingly large corpus published during the nineteenth century, which analyzed the present. By looking at how this work was received, we can see a variety of conflicting images regarding its conceptual profile and its historical significance. Among the more positive reviews, Carl Schmitt’s is particularly noteworthy. Many readers have noted the parallels between Kierkegaard ...
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