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6 Existentialisms in the Hispanic and Latin American Worlds: El Quixote and Its Existential Children
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An Unnoticed Classic An Unnoticed Classic
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Toward Philosophical Centrality Toward Philosophical Centrality
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French Kierkegaard French Kierkegaard
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The Age of Anxiety in America The Age of Anxiety in America
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Concluding Thoughts: Dissemination and Secularization Concluding Thoughts: Dissemination and Secularization
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10 Anxiety and Secularization: Søren Kierkegaard and the Twentieth-Century Invention of Existentialism
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Published:June 2012
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Abstract
This chapter examines the issue of canonization and how it intersects with the problem of secularization by focusing on the invention of Søren Kierkegaard as the forebear of existentialism. More specifically, it looks at the invention of anxiety: the separation of this central concept of Kierkegaard’s psychology from his corpus and the secularization of its meaning from his originally theistic framework. The chapter begins with a review of the byways and stages of the percolation of Kierkegaard’s texts and themes in European and then American thought. It then traces the history of the fate of Kierkegaard’s concept of anxiety by analyzing his 1944 work The Concept of Anxiety. It also considers how Kierkegaard came to occupy a central place in the existential canon in the years straddling World War II. Finally, it explores how the category of anxiety vacillated in meaning and significance when deployed in the works of various thinkers such as Kierkegaard, Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Binswanger, Jean Wahl, and Jean-Paul Sartre.
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