{"product_id":"kierkegaard-and-possibility-9781350298989","title":"Kierkegaard and Possibility","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow 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' (\u003ci\u003eMulighed\u003c\/i\u003e) 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Sickness Unto Death \u003c\/i\u003ethat 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword, \u003ci\u003eGeorge Pattison\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(University of Glasgow, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  Introduction: Existence and possibility, \u003ci\u003eErin Plunkett (University of Hertfordshire, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart I: Possibility and the Philosophical Tradition  \u003c\/b\u003e 1.       From Possibility to Actuality and Back Again: Kierkegaard’s Ontology of the Possible and the Actually Ideal, \u003ci\u003eJeff Hanson\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(Harvard University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 2.    ‘What Our Age Needs Most’: Kierkegaard's Metaphysics of Virkelighed and the Crisis of Identity of Philosophy, \u003ci\u003eGabriel Ferreira \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(UNISINOS, Brazil)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart II: Possibility and Experience\u003c\/b\u003e 3.    Possibility, Meaning, and Truth: Kierkegaardian Themes in Proust, \u003ci\u003eRick Anthony Furtak \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Colorado College, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 4.    The Secrecy of Possibility in Kierkegaard’s “Pattern”, \u003ci\u003eFrances Maughan-Brown \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(College of the Holy Cross, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  5.    Kierkegaard and Deleuze: Anxiety, Possibility and A World Without Others, \u003ci\u003eHenry Somers-Hall (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart III: Possibility and Freedom  \u003c\/b\u003e 6.    On Being Educated for the Possibility by \u003ci\u003eThe Concept of Anxiety, Jakub Marek (Charles University, Czech Republic) \u003c\/i\u003e  7.    Isaac I cannot Understand: Sacrifice and the Possibility of Radical Intersubjectivity, \u003ci\u003eTatiana Chavalková Badurová (Charles University, Czech Republic))\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart IV: Possibility and Hope \u003c\/b\u003e 8.    Just a Glance!  Kierkegaard’s Eschatology of the Possible, \u003ci\u003eSaitya Brata Das (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)\u003c\/i\u003e  9.    Climate Despair from a Kierkegaardian Perspective: Asceticism, Possibility and Eschatological Hope, \u003ci\u003eHjördis Becker-Lindenthal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Cambridge University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 10. Hope in the Task of Forgiveness, \u003ci\u003eJohn Lippitt (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eInstitute for Ethics \u0026amp; Society at Notre Dame, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003ci\u003eBibliography \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019650040151,"sku":"9781350298989","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350298989.jpg?v=1750780905","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/kierkegaard-and-possibility-9781350298989","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}