Volume 13: Kierkegaard's Influence on the Social Sciences

Jon Stewart

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781138271531
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351875110
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

Kierkegaard has long been known as a philosopher and theologian, but his contributions to psychology, anthropology and sociology have also made an important impact on these fields. In many of the works of his complex authorship, Kierkegaard presents his intriguing and unique vision of the nature and mental life of human beings individually and collectively. The articles featured in the present volume explore the reception of Kierkegaard's thought in the social sciences. Of these fields Kierkegaard is perhaps best known in psychology, where The Concept of Anxiety and The Sickness unto Death have been the two most influential texts. With regard to the field of sociology, social criticism, or social theory, Kierkegaard's Literary Review of Two Ages has also been regarded as offering valuable insights about some important dynamics of modern society..

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Jean Baudrillard: The Seduction of Jean Baudrillard
• Ernest Becker: A Kierkegaardian Theorist of Death and Human Nature
• Ludwig Binswanger: Kierkegaard’s Influence on Binswanger’s Work
• Mircea Eliade: On Religion, Cosmos, and Agony
• Erik Erikson: Artist of Moral Development
• Erich Fromm: The Integrity of the Self and the Practice of Love
• Anthony Giddens: Kierkegaard and the Risk of Existence
• René Girard: From Mimetic Desire to Anonymous Masses
• Carl Gustav Jung: A Missed Connection
• Julia Kristeva: Tales of Horror and Love
• Jacques Lacan: Kierkegaard as a Freudian Questioner of the Soul avant la lettre
• Rollo May: Existential Psychology
• Carl R. Rogers: “To Be That Self Which One Truly Is”
• Max Weber: Weber’s Existential Choice
• Irvin Yalom: The “Throw-Ins” of Psychotherapy
• Slavoj Žižek: Mirroring the Absent God
• Index of Persons
• Index of Subjects