Bøker av Saitya Brata Das

Taking inspiration from thinkers like Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Lévinas, Walter Benjamin and Franz Rosenzweig, this book draws profound ethico-political implications from the unconditional idea of redemtion in messianic thinking and shows that such thinking is the very task of our time.

Taking inspiration from thinkers like Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Lévinas, Walter Benjamin and Franz Rosenzweig, this book draws profound ethico-political implications from the unconditional idea of redemtion in messianic thinking and shows that such thinking is the very task of our time.

This book addresses the limits of metaphysics and the question of the possibility of ethics in this context. Beyond the academic world, the book will also appeal to readers (journalists, intellectuals, social activists, etc.) for whom the question of the ethical is the decisive question of our time.

Saitya Brata Das argues that in Kierkegaard's work we find a radical eschatological critique, not only of the liberal-humanist pathos of modernity but also the political theology of Carl Schmitt, that seeks to legitimise the sovereign power of the state by an appeal to a divine or theological foundation.

Saitya Brata Das rigorously examines the theologico-political works of Schelling, setting his thought against Hegel's and showing how he prepared the way for the post-metaphysical philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Franz Rosenzweig and Jacques Derrida.