A Danger Which We Do Not Know: A Philosophical Journey Into Anxiety by Rondel, David
A Danger Which We Do Not Know: A Philosophical Journey Into Anxiety by Rondel, David

A Danger Which We Do Not Know: A Philosophical Journey Into Anxiety

A Danger Which We Do Not Know tells a story about how philosophy and anxiety are tangled...
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Author: David Rondel
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A Danger Which We Do Not Know: A Philosophical Journey Into Anxiety by Rondel, David

A Danger Which We Do Not Know: A Philosophical Journey Into Anxiety

$111.27
A Danger Which We Do Not Know: A Philosophical Journey Into Anxiety by Rondel, David

A Danger Which We Do Not Know: A Philosophical Journey Into Anxiety

$111.27
Author: David Rondel
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A Danger Which We Do Not Know tells a story about how philosophy and anxiety are tangled up with each other. David Rondel explores how anxiety is one of the main human contexts in which the inclination to philosophize arises. The experience of anxiety sometimes prompts us to reflect and inquire, drawing us toward perennial philosophical questions about the nature of reality and knowledge, freedom and morality, the meaning of life and the prospect of death. Anxiety can give these questions fresh urgency, making them vivid and momentous in ways they otherwise might not be. Rondel also considers how turning to philosophy can sometimes offer relief for the anxious sufferer. In the face of the overwhelming force of anxiety, philosophy offers powerful tools. Philosophy helps us achieve precision and clarity of thinking that cuts through our anxiety-based stress. Highly abstract thought can also serve as a form of escapism--a happy diversion from the anxiety of everyday life. For these reasons, philosophy has a long and illustrious history as a form of therapy.

The chapters in this book cover significant ground, historically and thematically, and together provide a philosophical guide to anxiety. Each chapter focusses on the work of a particular philosopher or philosophical tradition with an eye toward showing how their ideas help us better understand anxiety's nature and meaning. One of the main arguments on which the chapters converge is that anxiety is much more than simple, blood-pumping fear. The human experience of anxiety has a distinctively evaluative and interpretive element. It is bound up with our capacity to reflect on sensations of fear, to anticipate and interpret them, and to have such thoughts and feelings (themselves always mediated by language and culture) shape how we see the world and ourselves in it. Suffering with anxiety is never simply a colorless fact, but an experience that must be understood in light of what matters to us--in light of who we are and what we care about.

Author: David Rondel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 07/22/2024
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780197767245

About the Author
David Rondel is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nevada. He is the author of Pragmatist Egalitarianism (Oxford University Press, 2018), and editor or co-editor of four additional books: Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will: The Political Philosophy of Kai Nielsen (University of Calgary Press, 2012), Pragmatism and Justice (Oxford University Press, 2017), The Cambridge Companion to Rorty (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and The Moral Psychology of Anxiety (Lexington, 2023).
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