RT Article
T1 The self and despair: Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Jüngel's anxious existence
JF International journal of philosophy and theology
VO 80
IS 4/5
SP 408
OP 423
A1 Casewell, Deborah
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1689959991
AB This article explores the influence and reception of the Kierkegaardian self in modern theology, focusing on the philosopher Martin Heidegger and the theologian Eberhard Jüngel. In an attempt to transcend the atheistic philosophy of modernity, Eberhard Jüngel responded to the active, choosing self of modernity, as propounded Heidegger, by proposing an account of existence that is instead passive before God. However, as Heidegger's philosophy itself is deeply in debt to Kierkegaard's account of existence, Jüngel's response to this active, choosing self both echoes and is radically distant from Kierkegaard's account of selfhood, wishing to have transformative faith in God but to move away from the individual relationship to God to a more communal, relational model. This article explores the debt that these thinkers have to Kierkegaard, and whether, in changing the active repetition of faith for the passivity of relational faith, Jüngel manages to overcome his own debt to Kierkegaard's account of the self before God.
K1 Eberhard Jüngel
K1 Martin Heidegger
K1 Søren Kierkegaard
K1 Word
K1 Anxiety
K1 Despair
K1 Faith
K1 Nothingness
DO 10.1080/21692327.2019.1581653