Kierkegaard's Existential Approach

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Recently there has been a growing interest not only in existentialism, but also in existential questions, as well as key figures in existential thinking. Yet despite this renewed interest, a systematic reconsideration of Kierkegaard’s existential approach is missing. This anthology is the first in a series of three that will attempt to fill this lacuna. The 13 chapters of the first anthology deal with various aspects of Kierkegaard's existential approach. Its reception will be examined in the works of influential philsophers such as Heidegger, Gadamer, and Habermas, as well as in lesser known philosophers from the interwar period, such as Jean Wahl, Lev Shestov, and Benjamin Fondane. Other chapters reconsider central notions, such as "anxiety", "existence", "imagination", and "despair". Finally, some chapters deal with Kierkegaard's relevance for central issues in contemporary philosophy, including "naturalism", "self-constitution", and "bioethics". This book is of relevance not only to researchers working in Kierkegaard Studies, but to anyone with an interest in existentialism and existential thinking. Table of Contents Foreword Acknowledgements Reception Philosophy of Existence in France in the 1930s “Thinker without Category”. Kierkegaard in Heidegger’s Thinking of the 1930s Existential Hermeneutics. Kierkegaard and Gadamer on Practical Knowledge (Phronesis) Concepts The Concept of Existence Thinking of Existence How to be a Human Being in the World: Kierkegaard’s Question of Existence Disclosing Despair: The Role of the Pseudonyms in Kierkegaard’s Existential Approach Father Kierkegaard Anxiety as the Origin of Freedom and Responsibility Concrete Infinity. Imagination and the Question of Reality Issues The Danger of Losing Oneself. Habermas’s Species Ethics in Light of Kierkegaards’s Existential Analysis What Was I Thinking? Korsgaard, Crowell, and Kierkegaard on the Phenomenology of Ethically Informed, Unreflective Action Kierkegaard’s Dual Individual: Reconciling Selfhood in the Existentialist and Analytic Traditions List of Contributors Index