You can't get something for nothing: Kierkegaard and Heidegger on how not to overcome Nihilism
Titel:
You can't get something for nothing: Kierkegaard and Heidegger on how not to overcome Nihilism
Auteur:
Dreyfus, Hubert L. Rubin, Jane
Verschenen in:
Inquiry
Paginering:
Jaargang 30 (1987) nr. 1-2 pagina's 33-75
Jaar:
1987
Inhoud:
This paper analyzes Kierkegaard's Religiousness A sphere of existence, presented in his edifying works, and Heidegger's concept of authenticity, proposed in Being and Time, as responses to modern nihilism. While Kierkegaard argues that Religiousness A is an unsuccessful response to modern nihilism, Heidegger claims that authenticity, a secularized version of Religiousness A, is a successful response. We argue that Heidegger's secularization of Religiousness A is incomplete and unsuccessful, that Heidegger's later work offers a reconsideration of the problem of modern nihilism, and that later Heidegger suggests a way out of nihilism which is compatible with Kierkegaard's Religiousness B sphere of existence.
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