Kierkegaard's and Heidegger's Analysis of Existence and its Relation to Proclamation

In January 1950, the Danish philosopher and theologian K.E. Løgstrup delivered a series of lectures at the Freie University in West Berlin. Originally published in German at the time, and now here appearing in English as part of a four-volume series of his key works translated by Robert Stern and others, the result is one of the finest comparative studies of Kierkegaard and Heidegger ever written. There is the old adage about Løgstrup which works engaging him inevitably reference when observing his importance to Denmark but relative obscurity elsewhere: verdensberømt i Denmark ("world-famous in Denmark"). No longer! With this eminently readable English translation from Robert Stern and colleagues, the long overdue reception of one of the twentieth century's great thinkers has finally begun.

Auteur
Robert Stern is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, where he has worked since 1989. He was previously a student and then Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He has published extensively on Kant, Hegel, and transcendental arguments, as well as on accounts of moral obligation. He recently published the first monograph in English on Løgstrup, entitled The Radical Demand in Løgstrup's Ethics (Oxford 2019).

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In Kierkegaard's and Heidegger's Analysis of Existence and its Relation to Proclamation (1950), Løgstrup offers an original critique of these key thinkers. Arguing against their idea that 'life in the crowd' threatens individuality, he proposes an ethic beyond social rules: a requirement to care for a person whose life is placed in your hands.

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• Translators' preface

• A chronology of Løgstrup's life

• Introduction

• Kierkegaard's and Heidegger's Analysis of Existence and its Relation to Proclamation

• 1: Kierkegaard and Heidegger on 'Life in the Crowd'

• 2: On Kierkegaard's Account of the Doubling of the Relations of Spirit

• 3: The Relation Between Heidegger's and Kierkegaard's Analyses of Existence

• 4: On Kierkegaard's Account of the Problem of Taking Over Concrete Existence

• 5: Kierkegaard and Heidegger on the Concept of Guilt

• 6: The Absolute Demand of Concrete Existence

• 7: Philosophy and Proclamation

• 8: Thinking and Existence

• Editor's notes

• Select bibliography