Anxiety: A Philosophical History - Bettina Bergo

Written by Bettina Bergo
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General Information
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Title: Anxiety
Subtitle: A Philosophical History
Author: Bettina Bergo
Reader: Donna Postel
Audiobook Copyright: 2021-03-23
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Duration: 23 hrs 51 mins
ISBN: 9781705281413
Subjects: Nonfiction

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Book Description
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Anxiety looms large in historical works of philosophy and psychology.
It is an affect, philosopher Bettina Bergo argues, subtler and more
persistent than our emotions, and points toward the intersection of
embodiment and cognition. While scholars who focus on the work of
luminaries as Freud, Levinas, or Kant often study this theme in
individual works, they seldom draw out the deep and significant
connections between various approaches to anxiety.

This volume provides a sweeping study of anxiety in nineteenth and
twentieth century European thought. Anxiety threads itself through
European intellectual life, beginning in receptions of Kant’s
transcendental philosophy and running into Levinas’s phenomenology; it
is a core theme in Schelling, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, and
Nietzsche. As a symptom of an interrogation that strove to take form
in European intellectual culture, Angst passes through Schelling’s
romanticism into Schopenhauer’s metaphysical vitalism, before it is
explored existentially by Kierkegaard. And, in the twentieth century,
it proves an extremely central concept for Heidegger.

This volume opens new windows onto philosophers who have never yet
been put into dialogue, providing a rigorous intellectual history as
it connects themes across two centuries, and unearths the deep roots
of our own present-day “age of anxiety.”