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This chapter considers a fundamental problem which is central to Søren Kierkegaard and Martin Heidegger, namely how to avoid living a life that is governed by others and so is inauthentic, trapped within the hum-drum and the mundane—a life in the crowd. Focusing first on Kierkegaard, and his critique of ‘busyness’, it then turns to Heidegger, and his account of ‘idle talk’. However, it is argued that Kierkegaard’s approach differs from Heidegger’s in being fuelled by an ethical passion, which is partly driven by his hostility to Hegelianism, and also to contemporary Danish Christendom. Moreover, while on Heidegger’s account, life in the crowd is made an inevitable and therefore neutral feature of human existence, for Kierkegaard it can be avoided. How this might be possible for Kierkegaard is considered in subsequent chapters.

Author

K. E. Løgstrup

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN