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Kierkegaard and Possibility (Hardcover)
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Kierkegaard and Possibility (Hardcover)
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How does our conception of possibility contribute to our
understanding of self and world? In what sense does the possible
differ from the merely probable, and what would it mean to treat
possibility as part of the real? This book is an opportunity to see
Kierkegaard as contributing to a distinctive phenomenology,
ontology, and psychology of possibility that addresses the question
of our existential relationship to the possible. The term
‘possibility’ (Mulighed) and its variants occur with curious
frequency across Kierkegaard’s writings. Key to Kierkegaard’s
understanding of the self, possibility is linked to a number of
core concepts in his works: from imagination, anxiety, despair, and
‘the moment’ to the idea in The Sickness Unto Death that “God
is that all things are possible”. Responding to what he sees as a
Hegelian and Aristotelian misunderstanding of possibility,
Kierkegaard offers a novel reading of the possible that, in turn,
directly influences 20th-century philosophers such as Heidegger,
Deleuze, and Derrida. Kierkegaard gives a rich account of how
anxiety and despair, as lived experiences of possibility, not only
show us the contingency and fragility of the systems and identities
we presently inhabit but also reveal a more fundamental contingency
that demands a new way of relating to the possible. For
Kierkegaard, hope, faith, and love are attitudes in which meaning
is forged by embracing contingency. In a time of political, social,
and environmental uncertainty Kierkegaard’s work on radical
possibility seems more relevant than ever.
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