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Topic:
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The Skepticism of Faith: Kierkegaard and Cavell in the Present Age.
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Speaker:
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Mark Cauchi
Associate Professor,
Department of Humanities York University, Toronto.
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Time:
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Friday, December 1, 2017
7:15 pm -10:00 pm
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Place:
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Combnation Room
Trinity College, Univ. Of Toronto
6 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto
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Inquiry:
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Professor Abrahim H. Khan
Trinity College
Tel. 416 978-3039 (O), 416 978-2133(off. asst)
E-mail:khanah@chass.utoronto.ca
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Mark Cauchi is the co-editor with Avron Kulak of "Kierkegaard at Two Hundred: The Challenge of the Single Individual in the Present Age" (European Legacy, 2013) and the author of a number of articles in continental philosophy, religious and secular studies, and film studies. He is co-editor with John Caruana of Immanent Frames: Postsecular Cinema between Malick and von Trier (forthcoming SUNY 2018).
SYNOPSIS
When it comes to drawing Kierkegaard into the political sphere, opinions tend to oscillate between viewing Kierkegaard as either apolitical or a political conservative. Textual evidence seems to support this, given Kierkegaard's own criticisms of the progressive politics of his day. However, while Kierkegaard's insights into subjective questions remains profound, his own thoughts on politics were strikingly superficial, and represent a failure to extend the consequences of his own thought into the world of politics. Therefore, the purpose of this talk will be to demonstrate that rather than an apolitical or conservative approach to politics, Kierkegaard's thought naturally and necessarily leads to the political analysis of his contemporary post-Hegelian, Karl Marx. In other words, had Kierkegaard properly recognized the consequences of his own thought, he would have been a Marxist.
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