Daniel Watts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3787325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Watts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Watts |
| SIGNATURE | WATTS D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Kierkegaard on the Value of Despair
I show how Kierkegaard’s work offers a cogent alternative to the standard view which interprets despair as hopelessness and evaluates despair as unambiguously bad. On Kierkegaard’s alternative account, despair is not to be equated with feelings of futility or hopelessness, or any other sort of psychological state. It is instead a distinctive sort of ability: the ability to give up on oneself, that is, the ability to decline or refuse to take up o…
Kierkegaard and the Limits of Thought
This essay offers an account of Kierkegaard’s view of the limits of thought and of what makes this view distinctive. With primary reference to Philosophical Fragments , and its putative representation of Christianity as unthinkable, I situate Kierkegaard’s engagement with the problem of the limits of thought, especially with respect to the views of Kant and Hegel. I argue that Kierkegaard builds in this regard on Hegel’s critique of Kant but that…
It's a joke, I do not accept
This paper explores the notions of indebtedness in the work of Derrida and the complex series of negotiations he employs in dealing with the work of Heidegger, Blanchot and Beckett, principally in the works The Post Card, “Living On: Border Lines”, The Work of Mourning and “Aphorism Countertime”. What does the obligation to read the work of Derrida entail? The ethical demand of history and the political is strewn with ghosts and phantoms; all the…
It's a joke, I do not accept
This paper explores the notions of indebtedness in the work of Derrida and the complex series of negotiations he employs in dealing with the work of Heidegger, Blanchot and Beckett, principally in the works The Post Card, “Living On: Border Lines”, The Work of Mourning and “Aphorism Countertime”. What does the obligation to read the work of Derrida entail? The ethical demand of history and the political is strewn with ghosts and phantoms; all the…
It's a joke, I do not accept
This paper explores the notions of indebtedness in the work of Derrida and the complex series of negotiations he employs in dealing with the work of Heidegger, Blanchot and Beckett, principally in the works The Post Card, “Living On: Border Lines”, The Work of Mourning and “Aphorism Countertime”. What does the obligation to read the work of Derrida entail? The ethical demand of history and the political is strewn with ghosts and phantoms; all the…
Kierkegaard and the Limits of Thought
This essay offers an account of Kierkegaard’s view of the limits of thought and of what makes this view distinctive. With primary reference to Philosophical Fragments , and its putative representation of Christianity as unthinkable, I situate Kierkegaard’s engagement with the problem of the limits of thought, especially with respect to the views of Kant and Hegel. I argue that Kierkegaard builds in this regard on Hegel’s critique of Kant but that…
Kierkegaard on the Value of Despair
I show how Kierkegaard’s work offers a cogent alternative to the standard view which interprets despair as hopelessness and evaluates despair as unambiguously bad. On Kierkegaard’s alternative account, despair is not to be equated with feelings of futility or hopelessness, or any other sort of psychological state. It is instead a distinctive sort of ability: the ability to give up on oneself, that is, the ability to decline or refuse to take up o…
Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Contemplation (1 work) · Deconstruction (building (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Feeling (1 work)