Anxiety : a philosophical history / Bettina Bergo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bergo, Bettina, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anxiety.

Emotions (Philosophy).

Anxiety--history.

Philosophy--history.

Medical Subjects:

Anxiety--history.

Philosophy--history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 514 pages)

Other Title:

Philosophical history

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Philosopher Bettina Bergo studies the sweeping history of anxiety as manifested in European philosophy over the last 250 years. Readers interested in intellectual history - even with a superficial knowledge of philosophy - will find rich material here, and insight into our present-day 'age of anxiety'. The book will trace important connections that link studies of anxiety in philosophy, from Kant's transcendental relegation of emotions to philosophical anthropology, to Levinas' phenomenology, among numerous others. Focusing on anxiety as embodied sensation and an emotion, Bergo opens new windows of thought, putting philosophers whose work has never before been compared into dialogue with one another.

Contents:

Introduction

Anxiety: A Philosophical History

1. The New Philosophy: Kant's Transcendental Revolution and the Fate of Emotions in German Philosophy

Excursus 1. From Kant to Hegel via Philippe Pinel

2. Anxiety, Freedom, and Evil: Schelling and Groundless Life

3. The Dialectics of Affect: Anxiety and Despair in Kierkegaard

Excursus 2. The Universality of Emotions? Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872)

4. Schopenhauer, "Life," and the Affects of the Noumenal

5. Nietzsche and the Intensification of the Dialectic of Anxiety: Mourning and Transvaluation

6. Freud and the Three Anxieties

Excursus 3. Husserl: The Problem of Affective Froces, Einfühlung, and a Phenomenological Unconscious

7. Heidegger I: Angst in Heidegger's Fundamental Ontology and the Debts to Husserl and Kierkegaard

8. Heidegger II: Angst, the Temporalization of Dasein, and the Temporality of "Life"

9. Emmanuel Levinas and the Anxiety of Intersubjective Origins

Conclusion.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-753973-4

0-19-753974-2

0-19-753972-6