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Anxiety - A Philosophical History (Hardcover)
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Anxiety - A Philosophical History (Hardcover)
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Anxiety looms large in historical works of philosophy and
psychology. It is an affect, philosopher Bettina Bergo argues,
subtler and more persistent than our emotions, and points toward
the intersection of embodiment and cognition. While scholars who
focus on the work of luminaries as Freud, Levinas, or Kant often
study this theme in individual works, they seldom draw out the deep
and significant connections between various approaches to anxiety.
This volume provides a sweeping study of the uncanny career of
anxiety in nineteenth and twentieth century European thought.
Anxiety threads itself through European intellectual life,
beginning in receptions of Kant's transcendental philosophy and
running into Levinas' phenomenology; it is a core theme in
Schelling, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. As a symptom
of an interrogation that strove to take form in European
intellectual culture, Angst passes through Schelling's romanticism
into Schopenhauer's metaphysical vitalism, before it is explored
existentially by Kierkegaard. And, in the twentieth century, it
proves an extremely central concept for Heidegger, even as Freud is
exploring its meaning and origin over a thirty year-long period of
psychoanalytic development. This volume opens new windows onto
philosophers who have never yet been put into dialogue, providing a
rigorous intellectual history as it connects themes across two
centuries, and unearths the deep roots of our own present-day "age
of anxiety."
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