ABSTRACT
The Danish Kierkegaard scholar Gregor Malantschuk (1902-78) begins his lecture on Political and Social Aspects of Kierkegaard’s Thought by emphasizing “an essential and important presupposition for all of Kierkegaard’s activity both as a person and as an author: He perceived very early that he was an exception, something extraordinary, born at the beginning of a crisis period of unsuspected world-historical dimensions.”1 The Italian political philosopher Giorgio Agamben takes up just this dialectic in his works on Homo sacer.
