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Contingent and chaotic reality -- A challenge to chaos -- Kant, freedom, and evil -- Kierkegaard and Schelling on process -- The concept of anxiety and Kant -- Kierkegaard on women -- Metaphors of birth in Kierkegaard -- More on birthing -- Nature as a body that can birth -- The age of revolution and the present age

Alison Assiter argues that the notion of the person that lies at the heart of the liberal tradition is derived from a Kantian and Cartesian metaphysic. This metaphysic, according to her, is flawed and it permeates a number of aspects of the tradition. Significantly it excludes certain individuals, those who are labelled ''mad'' or ''evil''. Instead she offers an alternative metaphysical image of the person that is derived largely from the work of Kierkegaard. Assiter argues that there is a strand of Kierkegaard''s writing that offers a metaphysical picture that recognises the dependence of p

Coupling existential themes with politics and psychology, Political Refugees: A New Perspective tells the story of Iranian political refugees through case studies and coauthor Armin Danesh's own personal narrative. All the refugees featured in this book were politically engaged and suffered as a consequence, but their stories demonstrate the human capacity to be transformed through crisis.

Kierkegaard is no doubt a philosopher whose focus is inwardness and irreducible individuality. On the surface, he therefore seems to have little to teach us about the sphere of the political: not only was this dimension never explicitly addressed in the writings of the Danish philosopher, but also the positions he took with regard to such a domain where always marked by a strong critical attitude. Moreover, he appeared to be a conservative with regard to any movement towards democratization a