Kierkegaard studies: The Role of Melancholy in Kierkegaard’s Philosophical Thought and a Look at Heidegger

Pretzsch, Moritz René

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Title:: Kierkegaard studies

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Publication:: Berlin [u.a.]: de Gruyter

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Author:: Pretzsch, Moritz René

Title:: The Role of Melancholy in Kierkegaard’s Philosophical Thought and a Look at Heidegger

Publication:: Berlin [u.a.]: de Gruyter, 2025

Language:: English

Information:: Abstract: In this article, I would like to address the role of melancholy in Kierkegaard’s thinking. I will show that Kierkegaard refers to the concepts of ancient melancholy and medieval acedia. Thus, it can be seen that Kierkegaard’s conceptions of melancholy, on the one hand, touch on Aristotle’s Problema XXX, 1 and, on the other hand, radicalize and universalize the concept of medieval acedia. In addition, I will make an instructive reference to Heidegger’s thinking. In Heidegger’s work, as in Kierkegaard’s, there are references to the ancient thinking of melancholy, and the implications of his analysis of being can be linked to the medieval concept of acedia. I will argue that thinking about melancholy through the philosophy of Kierkegaard and Heidegger helps to understand melancholy as a way to achieve a new understanding of the self and the world, to reflect on actual values and to open up philosophical thinking. I will therefore show that Heidegger, in following Kierkegaard in his assumption that melancholy is a fundamental mood of philosophy, is not necessarily wrong.

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Classification:: Philosophie

DDC Group:: 100 Philosophie

URN:: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2511190333184.821200152350

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