The Kierkegaardian and Heideggerian Anxiety: on To Be and Being
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.54691/bcpep.v7i.2683Keywords:
Kierkegaard; Heidegger; Anxiety.Abstract
The terminology of anxiety is included in both Kierkegaard’s and Heidegger’s analysis on human existence, and in both cases, it takes place when a man realizes his responsibility for his own being. Yet Kierkegaard introduces anxiety in constructing individuals’ lonely journey towards god, Heidegger mainly sees anxiety as a critical point in Dasein’s reaching a structural wholeness. In this essay, I will respectively illustrate Kierkegaard’s and Heidegger’s accounts on anxiety, including anxiety’s subjects, the occurrence of anxiety, and the solution to anxiety; then, I will analyze the differences between the two seemingly-similar views on anxiety by incorporating the two views into the philosophers’ core philosophies, and finally lead to the conclusion that while Kierkegaard noticed anxiety in a ‘to be question’, Heidegger points to anxiety to solve the ‘being question’.
Downloads
References
Geter, Kenneth David, "Missed Appropriations: Uncovering Heidegger's Debt to Kierkegaard in Being and Time" (2016). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1195. Page 2. https:// digitalcommons. du. edu/ etd/ 1195.
Wheeler, Michael, "Martin Heidegger", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2020/entries/heidegger/.
Haynes, J. 5)2016, Anxiety's Ambiguity: via Kierkegaard & Heidegger. Dreyfus H. L. & Wrathall M. A. (2017). Background practices essays on the understanding of being (First). Oxford University Press. Page 94.
Dreyfus, Hubert. (2003). Christianity without Onto-Theology: Kierkegaard's account of the self's movement from despair to bliss. Dreyfus H. L. & Wrathall M. A. (2017). Background practices essays on the understanding of being (First). Oxford University Press. Page 232.
Heidegger, M. (2008). Being and Time. HarperCollins.
Kierkegaard, S. (2000). Two Ages the Age of Revolution and the Present Age a Literary Review. In Edna H. Hong (ed.), _The Essential Kierkegaard_. Princeton University Press. pp. 252-268.
Kierkegaard, Søen & Lowrie, Walter (1941). _The Sickness Unto Death_. Princeton University Press.
Kierkegaard, S. & Perkins, Robert L. (1985). _The Concept of Anxiety_. Mercer University Press.
Wrathall, M. (Ed.). (2013). The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's Being and Time (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CCO9781139047289. Page 84.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
