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date: 06 March 2021

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This chapter examines the relationship between Soren Kierkegaard and Martin Heidegger. It explains that Heidegger mentioned Kierkegaard in much of his work from the early 1920s until his latest writings, but did not clarify the relationship between his own thought and Kierkegaard's. The chapter analyses Kierkegaard's distinctive contribution to philosophy and evaluates how this was taken up by Heidegger in his writings, particularly in . It also evaluates the extent to which contemporary interpretation of Kierkegaard was influenced by Heidegger's philosophy.

Keywords: Soren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, philosophy, contemporary interpretation, Being and Time

Clare Carlisle

Clare Carlisle is Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion at King's College London. She is the author of Kierkegaard's Philosophy of Becoming: Movements and Positions (State University of New York Press, 2005) and Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling (Continuum, 2010). Her English translation of Félix Ravaisson's De l’habitude was published in 2008, and her next book will be On Habit (Routledge, 2013).

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