Table of Contents

Foreword, George Pattison (University of Glasgow, UK)
Introduction: Existence and possibility, Erin Plunkett (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

Part I: Possibility and the Philosophical Tradition
1. From Possibility to Actuality and Back Again: Kierkegaard’s Ontology of the Possible and the Actually Ideal, Jeff Hanson (Harvard University, USA)
2. ‘What Our Age Needs Most’: Kierkegaard's Metaphysics of Virkelighed and the Crisis of Identity of Philosophy, Gabriel Ferreira (UNISINOS, Brazil)

Part II: Possibility and Experience
3. Possibility, Meaning, and Truth: Kierkegaardian Themes in Proust, Rick Anthony Furtak (Colorado College, USA)
4. The Secrecy of Possibility in Kierkegaard’s “Pattern”, Frances Maughan-Brown (College of the Holy Cross, USA)
5. Kierkegaard and Deleuze: Anxiety, Possibility and A World Without Others, Henry Somers-Hall (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)

Part III: Possibility and Freedom
6. On Being Educated for the Possibility by The Concept of Anxiety, Jakub Marek (Charles University, Czech Republic)
7. Isaac I cannot Understand: Sacrifice and the Possibility of Radical Intersubjectivity, Tatiana Chavalková Badurová (Charles University, Czech Republic))

Part IV: Possibility and Hope
8. Just a Glance! Kierkegaard’s Eschatology of the Possible, Saitya Brata Das (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
9. Climate Despair from a Kierkegaardian Perspective: Asceticism, Possibility and Eschatological Hope, Hjördis Becker-Lindenthal (Cambridge University, UK)
10. Hope in the Task of Forgiveness, John Lippitt (Institute for Ethics & Society at Notre Dame, Australia)

Bibliography
Index

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A novel analysis of possibility in Kierkegaard’s work that presents his writings as a resource for the challenge of living in contingency and uncertainty.

About the Author

Erin Plunkett is Lecturer in Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She is author of A Philosophy of the Essay (Bloomsbury, 2018) and editor of The Selected Writings of Jan Patocka (Bloomsbury, 2022)