The ‘nothing’ in Heidegger’s concept of anxiety
From groundlessness to presence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21592287 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Balaska (0000-0001-6900-6556, University of Hertfordshire, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1543-1558 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophical Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-5089 • E-ISSN: 1465-394X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09515089.2023.2243972 |
| OpenAlex | W4387339708 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
In this paper I explore the differences between how Martin Heidegger and Wouter Kusters understand the role that anxiety as an encounter with the nothing plays for the origin of philosophy. Despite an important overlap between Heidegger and Kusters on the critical distance they take from the discourse of psychology and psychiatry and their valuable attempt to de-psychologize the discourse around anxiety and prioritize its existential insights, I argue that Kusters’ view of the nothing primarily as groundlessness and, subsequently, the view that anxiety leads to philosophy through the route of extreme skepticism is at odds with Heidegger’s view that anxiety as an encounter with nothing reveals the world as a whole
Anxiety · Epistemology · Existentialism · Nothing · Pessimism · Philosophy and literature · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Skepticism · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |