Now available from Ashgate Publishing… Kierkegaard and Existentialism Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources Volume 9 Edited by Jon Stewart, University of Copenhagen, Denmark The existentialist movement was largely responsible for the major Contents: Preface; Simone de Beauvoir: a founding feminist’s advance in Kierkegaard’s international reception that took place in the appreciation of Kierkegaard, Ronald M. Green and twentieth century. In Kierkegaard’s writings one can find a rich array Mary Jean Green; Nicholas Berdyaev: Kierkegaard amongst the of concepts such as anxiety, despair, freedom, sin, the crowd, and artists, mystics and solitary thinkers, George Pattison; Martin Buber: sickness that all came to be standard motifs in existentialist literature. ‘No-one can so refute Kierkegaard as Kierkegaard himself’, The articles feature figures from French, German, Spanish and Russian Peter Šajda; Albert Camus: walled within God, Leo Stan; Martin traditions of existentialism. They examine the rich and varied use of Heidegger: Kierkegaard’s influence hidden and in full view, Kierkegaard by these later thinkers, and importantly, they critically Vincent McCarthy; Michel Henry: the goodness of living affectivity, analyze his purported role in this famous intellectual movement. Leo Stan; Karl Jaspers: a great awakener’s way to philosophy of existence, István Czakó; Gabriel Marcel: the silence of truth, Jeanette Bresson Ladegaard Knox; Jacques Maritain: Kierkegaard as ‘champion of the singular’, Nathaniel Kramer; Maurice Merleau- Ponty: Kierkegaard’s influence on his work, Elisabetta Basso; Friedrich Nietzsche: rival visions of the best way of life, Thomas Miles; Franz Rosenzweig: a kindred spirit in alignment with Kierkegaard, Claudia Welz; Jean-Paul Sartre: Kierkegaard’s influence on his theory of nothingness, Manuela Hackel; Lev Shestov: Kierkegaard in the Ox of Phalaris, George Pattison; Miguel de Unamuno: Kierkegaard’s Spanish ‘brother’, Jan E. Evans; Jean Wahl: philosophies of existence and the introduction of Kierkegaard in the non-Germanic world, Alejandro Cavallazzi Sánchez and Azucena Palavicini Sánchez; Indexes. Sample pages for published titles are available to view online at: www.ashgate.com To order, please visit: www.ashgate.com May 2011 All online orders receive a discount 446 pages Hardback Alternatively, contact our distributor: 978-1-4094-2641-7 Bookpoint Ltd, Ashgate Publishing Direct Sales, £65.00 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4SB, UK http://www.ashgate.com/ Tel: +44 (0)1235 827730 Fax: +44 (0)1235 400454 isbn/9781409426417 Email: [email protected].