2025/02/20 by Bogdan Ovcharuk · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Political Economy and Marxism #Political Theory and Influence #Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment
paper · doi:10.1080/1462317x.2025.2465935
openalex publication_date 2025/02/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/16
Rose's philosophical project of critical Marxism articulated the subjective aspect of revolutionary practice by turning to Hegel's speculative exposition of religion and politics. The question of revolutionary faith was, however, left unanswered. This article demonstrates that Rose's later engagement with Kierkegaard, motivated by her Marxist-Hegelian theory of revolutionary subjectivity, answers this question. It begins by outlining Rose's critique of Marxist voluntarism as the materialist deployment of Fichte's idealist faith. This is followed by a reconstruction of Rose's speculative response to the dualism presupposed in such abstract faith, a response worked out in trinitarian theological and triune philosophical terms. Specifically, Rose forges a conceptual mediation between her Marxian theory of revolutionary praxis and Kierkegaardian concrete faith through Hegel's Logic, while also accounting for the existential experience of this mediation through the phenomenology of the leap of faith. The paper ends by showing how revolutionary faith addresses the dangers of political inversions attendant to Marxist subjectivity.