Encounters With Nineteenth-Century Continental Philosophy: Discussions and Debates (New Research in the History of Western Philosophy, 4)

The nineteenth century was a dynamic time of philosophical development. This volume explores the rich tradition of nineteenth-century Continental philosophy, highlighting the importance of this tradition for the leading streams of thought of the twentieth and twenty-first century. Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Feuerbach’s Writings Freud’s Writings Hegel’s Writings Kierkegaard’s Writings Marx’s Writings Nietzsche’s Writings Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1: Ethics 1 Nietzsche’s Philosophical and Rhetorical Aims in Beyond Good and Evil 1 Taking a Stand Beyond Good and Evil 2 Philosophy Beyond Good and Evil 3 The Morality of Good and Evil 4 What Nietzsche Wants 2 Evasion? Profession? Writing and the Dominion of Melancholy in Søren Kierkegaard 1 The Dominion of Melancholy 2 Evasion? Profession? Melancholy and Writing in Søren Kierkegaard 3 God as “Intermediate Determinant”: The Debate between Feuerbach 1 Feuerbach’s Attack upon Christian Love in The Essence of Christianity 2 Kierkegaard’s Critique of the (Feuerbachian) Preferential Love 3 God’s Function in Human Relationships Part 2: Philosophy of Religion 4 Ich und Du ist Gott 1 Ludwig Feuerbach and his Communicative Philosophy of the I and Thou 2 Modern Intersubjectivity 2.1 Edmund Husserl 2.2 Martin Buber 2.3 Emmanuel Levinas 3 Recognition Theory: Axel Honneth and Charles Taylor 4 Conclusion Acknowledgments 5 The Humorist in the Face of Religious Existence 1 Religiousness A and B 2 The Earnestness of Humor 3 Humor as Confinium 4 Conclusion 6 Hegel’s Philosophy of Religion and Durkheim’s Sociology of Religion: A Comparative Study 1 The Methodology for the Study of Religion: Conceptual and Empirical 2 The Origin of Religion and the Role of History 3 The Truth of Religion 4 The Role of Symbolism: Conceptual Thinking and Picture Thinking 5 The Social Basis for Religion Part 3: Philosophical Anthropology and Social Sciences 7 The Concept of Anxiety and The Sickness unto Death: A Theory of Frustrated Subjectivity 1 The Psychology of Sin 2 A Sinful Subjectivity 3 A Frustrated Subjectivity 4 The Frustrations of the Self 5 Conclusion 8 Encore Cassirer: Meta-Worlds of Symbolic Forms 1 Objectives of Neo-Kantians 2 Old Questions, New Answers 3 Another Kind of Idealism 4 Symbols as Key to Culture 9 Anxiety and Sexuality in Kierkegaard and Freud 1 Anxiety as an Intermediate Category: From Innocence to Guilt 2 The Introduction of the Field of Sexuality in The Concept of Anxiety 3 The Freudian Conception of Sexuality 4 Anxiety as a Key to Neurosis in Freud’s Early Writings (1892–1897) 5 Final Considerations Part 4: Politics and Social Criticism 10 Morning and Noon Political Observations 1 The Question on the Freedom of Press and the Rise of Liberalism in Golden Age Denmark 2 Johannes Ostermann 3 Kierkegaard’s Discussion of the Development of Selfhood in His Earlier Journals 4 A Study from Nature in Noonday Light 5 Conclusion 11 Jaspers’ Diagnosis of the Spiritual Condition of the Age as a Continuation 1 Kierkegaard: The Spread of Envy and Leveling as an Impetus for the Rise of the Public 2 Jaspers: Envy and Leveling in the Apparatus of Mass-Order 3 The Public, the Mass and the Fragility of Leveling 12 The Notion of Political Abstraction and the Concept of the Modern State in Marx 1 Marxist Theory and the Problem of the State 2 Reflection on the State in Marx’s Work 3 Around the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right of 1843 4 Civil Society, State and Abstraction in Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right 5 Democracy and the Modern State 6 On the Interpretations of the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right 7 Abstraction as a Form of the Political in Modernity 8 Political Abstraction and Real Abstraction 9 From Political Abstraction to the Marxist Theory of the State Index of Names Index of Subjects "With figures such as Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, Marx, Engels, and Nietzsche, the nineteenth century was a dynamic time of philosophical development. The period made lasting contributions to several fields of philosophy. Moreover, it paved the way for the development of the social sciences at the turn of the twentieth century. This volume is dedicated to exploring the rich tradition of nineteenth-century Continental philosophy in its different areas with the main purpose of highlighting the importance of this tradition in the development of the leading streams of thought of the twentieth and twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher