Kierkegaard and Heidegger on “Pathos-Filled Transition”

TY - CHAP

T1 - Kierkegaard and Heidegger on “Pathos-Filled Transition”

AU - Golob, Sacha

PY - 2023/10/25

Y1 - 2023/10/25

N2 - Kierkegaard and Heidegger both place fundamental emphasis on the possibility of personal transformation, that is, a radical change in an individual’s commitments and self-understanding. I argue that juxtaposing them can illuminate some key dynamics in post-Hegelian debates over such change, its limits, conditions, and the forms it can and should take. I concentrate on what Kierkegaard calls “pathos-filled transition”, a transformation in which a specific emotion, broadly construed, plays a central role.

AB - Kierkegaard and Heidegger both place fundamental emphasis on the possibility of personal transformation, that is, a radical change in an individual’s commitments and self-understanding. I argue that juxtaposing them can illuminate some key dynamics in post-Hegelian debates over such change, its limits, conditions, and the forms it can and should take. I concentrate on what Kierkegaard calls “pathos-filled transition”, a transformation in which a specific emotion, broadly construed, plays a central role.

KW - Heidegger

KW - Kierkegaard

KW - Transformation

KW - Emotions

KW - Pathos

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-0-367-52088-5

SP - 238

EP - 250

BT - Transformation and the History of Philosophy

A2 - Bruno, G. Anthony

A2 - Vlasits, Justin

PB - Routledge

CY - Oxford

ER -