Introduction Erin Plunkett (Lecturer in Philosophy and Religious Studies at University of Hertfordshire, UK) 1. 'Kierkegaard's Ontology of the Possible and the Actually Ideal' Jeff Hanson (Harvard University Human Flourishing Programme, USA) 2. '"What our age needs most": Kierkegaard's metaphysics of Virkelighed and the Crisis of Identity of Philosophy' Gabriel Ferriera (Assistant Professor of Philosophy at UNISINOS, Brazil) 3. 'The Abyss of the Possible: Time and Eternity in Kierkegaard' Saitya Brata Das (Associate Professor of Philosophy of Literature, Language, and Culture atJawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India) 4. 'Possibility and Prototype: On Kierkegaard's Uncertain Patterns' Frances Maughan-Brown (Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at College of the Holy Cross, USA) 5. 'On Being Educated by Possibility in Kierkegaard's Concept of Anxiety' Jakub Marek (Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Charles University, Czech Republic) 6. 'Boredom in Kierkegaard and Heidegger' Erin Plunkett (Lecturer in Philosophy and Religious Studies at University of Hertfordshire, UK) 7. 'Possibility in Kierkegaard and Deleuze' Henry Somers-Hall (Reader in Philosophy at Royal Holloway University, UK) 8. 'Possibility, Meaning, and Truth: Kierkegaardian Themes in Proust' Rick Furtak (Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College, USA) 9. Defiance: The Death of Possibility and the Rise of Dark Authenticity' Daniel Conway (Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Texas A&M, USA) 10. 'Kierkegaard's Abraham or the Possibility of the Gift' Tatiana Badurová (PhD Student and Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy at Charles University, Czech Republic) 11. 'Anxiety in a Time of Global Uncertainty' Alison Assiter (Professor of Philosophy at University of Western England, UK) 12. 'The Evolution of Possibility in Kierkegaard's Thought' Kresten Lundsgaard-Leth (Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of Aalborg, Denmark) 13. 'How to Cooperate with Possibility: Kierkegaard on Detachment, Imagination, and Hope' Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal (Fellow and Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University, UK) 14. ''Beyond possibility? Expectancy and substantial hope in the task of forgiveness' John Lippitt (Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Ethics & Society at Notre Dame, Australia)
Show moreIntroduction Erin Plunkett (Lecturer in Philosophy and Religious Studies at University of Hertfordshire, UK) 1. 'Kierkegaard's Ontology of the Possible and the Actually Ideal' Jeff Hanson (Harvard University Human Flourishing Programme, USA) 2. '"What our age needs most": Kierkegaard's metaphysics of Virkelighed and the Crisis of Identity of Philosophy' Gabriel Ferriera (Assistant Professor of Philosophy at UNISINOS, Brazil) 3. 'The Abyss of the Possible: Time and Eternity in Kierkegaard' Saitya Brata Das (Associate Professor of Philosophy of Literature, Language, and Culture atJawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India) 4. 'Possibility and Prototype: On Kierkegaard's Uncertain Patterns' Frances Maughan-Brown (Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at College of the Holy Cross, USA) 5. 'On Being Educated by Possibility in Kierkegaard's Concept of Anxiety' Jakub Marek (Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Charles University, Czech Republic) 6. 'Boredom in Kierkegaard and Heidegger' Erin Plunkett (Lecturer in Philosophy and Religious Studies at University of Hertfordshire, UK) 7. 'Possibility in Kierkegaard and Deleuze' Henry Somers-Hall (Reader in Philosophy at Royal Holloway University, UK) 8. 'Possibility, Meaning, and Truth: Kierkegaardian Themes in Proust' Rick Furtak (Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College, USA) 9. Defiance: The Death of Possibility and the Rise of Dark Authenticity' Daniel Conway (Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Texas A&M, USA) 10. 'Kierkegaard's Abraham or the Possibility of the Gift' Tatiana Badurová (PhD Student and Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy at Charles University, Czech Republic) 11. 'Anxiety in a Time of Global Uncertainty' Alison Assiter (Professor of Philosophy at University of Western England, UK) 12. 'The Evolution of Possibility in Kierkegaard's Thought' Kresten Lundsgaard-Leth (Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of Aalborg, Denmark) 13. 'How to Cooperate with Possibility: Kierkegaard on Detachment, Imagination, and Hope' Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal (Fellow and Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University, UK) 14. ''Beyond possibility? Expectancy and substantial hope in the task of forgiveness' John Lippitt (Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Ethics & Society at Notre Dame, Australia)
Show moreForeword, 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
A novel analysis of possibility in Kierkegaard’s work that presents his writings as a resource for the challenge of living in contingency and uncertainty.
Erin Plunkett is Lecturer in Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She is author of A Philosophy of the Essay (Bloomsbury, 2018) and editor of The Selected Writings of Jan Patocka (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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