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Book SynopsisHow 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 philosoph
Table of ContentsForeword,
George Pattison (University of Glasgow, UK) Introduction: Existence and possibility,
Erin Plunkett (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Part I: Possibility and the Philosophical Tradition 1. From Possibility to Actuality and Back Again: Kierkegaard’s Ontology of the Possible and the Actually Ideal,
Jeff Hanson (Harvard University, USA) 2. ‘What Our Age Needs Most’: Kierkegaard's Metaphysics of Virkelighed and the Crisis of Identity of Philosophy,
Gabriel Ferreira (UNISINOS, Brazil) Part II: Possibility and Experience 3. Possibility, Meaning, and Truth: Kierkegaardian Themes in Proust,
Rick Anthony Furtak (Colorado College, USA) 4. The Secrecy of Possibility in Kierkegaard’s “Pattern”,
Frances Maughan-Brown (College of the Holy Cross, USA) 5. Kierkegaard and Deleuze: Anxiety, Possibility and A World Without Others,
Henry Somers-Hall (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) Part III: Possibility and Freedom 6. On Being Educated for the Possibility by
The Concept of Anxiety, Jakub Marek (Charles University, Czech Republic) 7. Isaac I cannot Understand: Sacrifice and the Possibility of Radical Intersubjectivity,
Tatiana Chavalková Badurová (Charles University, Czech Republic)) Part IV: Possibility and Hope 8. Just a Glance! Kierkegaard’s Eschatology of the Possible,
Saitya Brata Das (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) 9. Climate Despair from a Kierkegaardian Perspective: Asceticism, Possibility and Eschatological Hope,
Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal (Cambridge University, UK) 10. Hope in the Task of Forgiveness,
John Lippitt (Institute for Ethics & Society at Notre Dame, Australia) Bibliography Index
