... of psychology and theology, along with the work of Danish existentialist Søren Kierkegaard. Our world of the twenty-first century is pock marked by meaninglessness, absurdity, and violence masked by the languages of certitude and obfuscation. Americans, perhaps more than ever, cling to certainty...

...This chapter examines the paradox of Christian existentialism by tracing how a number of thinkers take on the troubling theme of “the exception,” which is entailed by Søren Kierkegaard’s argument in Fear and Trembling concerning the “teleological suspension of the ethical.” More...

...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...

...This chapter discusses Søren Kierkegaard's philosophy as it relates to despair in relation to faith. Like so many of his contemporary critics, he believed that despair was the sickness of the age, but unlike them, he was insistent upon the limits of reason in clearing the pathway...

... Friedrich Hegel, Søren Kierkegaard, and Karl Marx. It also provides a brief history of the theory of alienation. Alienation Bourgeois society Critique Independency Relation self and world Work alienated Capitalism Rousseau Jean Jacques Authenticity “Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men...

... fold and how inclusion into the canon recast the work of Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche, and it describes the roles played by Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger in Germany and the Paris School of existentialism in France. Chapters address not only frequently assigned works but also...