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Martin Heidegger Reads Søren Kierkegaard – or What Did He Actually Read?

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Published/Copyright: July 27, 2016
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Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook
From the journal Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook Volume 2016 Issue 1

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the sources that Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe provides for a discussion of the Heidegger-Kierkegaard relationship. I identify the translations Heidegger used and the writings that had the most impact on him. Moreover, I show that Heidegger’s relation to Kierkegaard was not consistent over his intellectual life, distinguishing five periods: an initial period of productive engagement (1919-1923); a complex period during the years in Marburg (1923-1928); an affirmative period back in Freiburg (1929-1934); a period of historical classification in the history of being (1935-1945); and an absence in the late writings (1946-1976).

Published Online: 2016-7-27
Published in Print: 2016-7-25

© 2016 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Titelei
  2. Preface
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Section 1: Interpreting Kierkegaard: Problems and Perspectives
  5. Kierkegaard on the Power of Love and Despair
  6. Geglaubte Verzweiflung: Wider eine atheistische Lesart Kierkegaards und ihre Ursächlichkeits-Rhetorik
  7. A Figurative Necessity in Dealing with Selfhood in Kierkegaard’s Thinking
  8. Kierkegaard as an Antimodern Moralist: Re-Thinking “Socio-Political” Categories in Recent Kierkegaard Scholarship
  9. Fertile Contradictions: A Reconsideration of “The Seducer’s Diary”
  10. On Separation as the Condition for All Existential Ethics
  11. Reue als Schlüssel zur existentiellen Selbstwerdung. Überlegungen im Anschluss an Kierkegaards Beichtrede von 1847
  12. Section 2: Source-Work Studies
  13. Schleiermacher in the Kierkegaardian Project: Between Socratic Ignorance and Second Immediacy
  14. The Monumental Task of Kierkegaard’s Attack upon Christendom
  15. Section 3: Kierkegaard Reception
  16. Faith in the Mode of Absence: Kierkegaard’s Jewish Readers in 1930s France (Rachel Bespaloff, Benjamin Fondane, Lev Shestov, and Jean Wahl)
  17. Gesellschaft und Kritische Philosophie. Kierkegaards und Jaspers’ Analyse der geistigen Situation Europas im Vergleich
  18. Kierkegaard und das ‚jüdische Denken‘: Die Rezeption Sören Kierkegaards in der jüdischen Moderne im Kontext des Orientalismus
  19. La puissance du don. Le don comme centre de la relation de l’homme avec Dieu, dans les discours édifiants de Kierkegaard, à la lumière de l’herméneutique du don de Jean Paul II
  20. Martin Heidegger Reads Søren Kierkegaard – or What Did He Actually Read?
  21. Section 4: Primary Texts in Translation
  22. Andreas Frederik Beck’s Review of Philosophical Fragments
  23. Abbreviations
  24. List of Contributors
https://doi.org/10.1515/kierke-2016-0116

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Titelei
  2. Preface
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Section 1: Interpreting Kierkegaard: Problems and Perspectives
  5. Kierkegaard on the Power of Love and Despair
  6. Geglaubte Verzweiflung: Wider eine atheistische Lesart Kierkegaards und ihre Ursächlichkeits-Rhetorik
  7. A Figurative Necessity in Dealing with Selfhood in Kierkegaard’s Thinking
  8. Kierkegaard as an Antimodern Moralist: Re-Thinking “Socio-Political” Categories in Recent Kierkegaard Scholarship
  9. Fertile Contradictions: A Reconsideration of “The Seducer’s Diary”
  10. On Separation as the Condition for All Existential Ethics
  11. Reue als Schlüssel zur existentiellen Selbstwerdung. Überlegungen im Anschluss an Kierkegaards Beichtrede von 1847
  12. Section 2: Source-Work Studies
  13. Schleiermacher in the Kierkegaardian Project: Between Socratic Ignorance and Second Immediacy
  14. The Monumental Task of Kierkegaard’s Attack upon Christendom
  15. Section 3: Kierkegaard Reception
  16. Faith in the Mode of Absence: Kierkegaard’s Jewish Readers in 1930s France (Rachel Bespaloff, Benjamin Fondane, Lev Shestov, and Jean Wahl)
  17. Gesellschaft und Kritische Philosophie. Kierkegaards und Jaspers’ Analyse der geistigen Situation Europas im Vergleich
  18. Kierkegaard und das ‚jüdische Denken‘: Die Rezeption Sören Kierkegaards in der jüdischen Moderne im Kontext des Orientalismus
  19. La puissance du don. Le don comme centre de la relation de l’homme avec Dieu, dans les discours édifiants de Kierkegaard, à la lumière de l’herméneutique du don de Jean Paul II
  20. Martin Heidegger Reads Søren Kierkegaard – or What Did He Actually Read?
  21. Section 4: Primary Texts in Translation
  22. Andreas Frederik Beck’s Review of Philosophical Fragments
  23. Abbreviations
  24. List of Contributors
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