Posted by Pat on March 20, 1999 at 06:44:27:
In Reply to: Influence posted by cari on March 18, 1999 at 23:30:33:
In secular philosophy, probably Heidegger, but he'd never admit it. The extent of his debt to Kierkegaard is only starting to be unpacked, but he doesn't really talk at length about Kierkegaard in the way he talks about Nietzsche, for instance. Perhaps he couldn't admit that his philosophy had been informed to such an extent by a religious philosopher.
Sartre was even worse; he denied owing anything to Kierkegaard, despite the fact that Sartrean Anguish is basically Kierkegaardian Anxiety, not to mention the accent on freedom. I suppose he was really just synthesising Heidegger's reading of Kierkegaard, but he certainly had read K.
I'm told he's huge in Theology, but I really couldn't say with who or to what extent.
So...who do YOU think he influenced the most?
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