The Original Age of Anxiety

Essays on Kierkegaard and His Contemporaries
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-47204-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 370, 148 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Studies in the History of Western Philosophy

Why was anxiety such a major issue for Søren Kierkegaard and his contemporaries? This book revisits the “original” age of anxiety, the time and place where Kierkegaard’s ground-breaking thoughts on anxiety were formed. The pseudonym used by Kierkegaard in The Concept of Anxiety (1844), Vigilius Haufniensis, is Latin for “the watchman of Copenhagen.” A guiding question is what the vigilant Haufniensis might have observed in his city—and especially in the literary culture of his time and day? Exploring freedom in many forms, Kierkegaard and his contemporaries found combinations of fear and desire that have later been considered symptomatic of modernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horne Kjældgaard, Lasse

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Skandinavische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Über Autor(innen)

Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, Dr.Phil. and Ph.D., is Professor of Danish Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and Director of the Hans Christian Andersen Centre. He has published numerous monographs and articles on Danish literary and cultural history.