Notes

INTRODUCTION

  1.   David E. Cooper, Existentialism (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1993), 9.

  2.   See Existentialism Basic Writings: Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, eds. Charles Guignon and Derk Pereboom (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 1995).

  3.   Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1983), 13. Emphasizing the active and relational nature of the self, the quote continues: “the self is not the relation but is the relation’s relating itself to itself.”

  4.   Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, trans. Duncan Large (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2007), 88.

  5.   Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea, trans. Lloyd Alexander (New York: New Directions Publishing, 1964), 129.

  6.   Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology, trans. Hazel E. Barnes (New York: Washington Square Press, 1984), 34.

  7.   Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, trans. J. O’Brien (New York: Vintage Books, 1955), 3.

  8.   See Søren Kierkegaard, Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1978), 68–69.

  9.   Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1995), 5.

CHAPTER 1: ANXIETY

  1.   E. M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born, trans. R. Howard (New York: Seaver Books, 1986), 84.

  2.   Søren Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1978), 5:258 entry 5743 (V A 71, n.d., 1844).

  3.   Søren Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers, 6:72 entry 6274 (IX A 411, n.d., 1848).

  4.   Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Part I, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1987), 34.

  5.   Søren Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, ed. Bruce H. Kirmmse (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2011), 4:230, Journal NB: 239.

  6.   Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin, ed. & trans. R. Thomte (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1980), 160–61.

  7.   Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety, 42.

  8.   Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers, 1:39 entry 94.

  9.   Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety, 42.

10.   Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety, 161.

11.   Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety, 155.

12.   Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety, 155.

13.   Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety, 159.

14.   Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety, 159.

CHAPTER 2: DEPRESSION AND DESPAIR

  1.   Julia Kristeva, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia, trans. Leon S. Roudiez (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1989).

  2.   Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Part I, 19.

  3.   Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers, 5:69 entry 5141 (1 A 161, n.d., 1836).

  4.   Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers, 6:306 entry 6603 (X2 A 619, n.d., 1850).

  5.   Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, Part II, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1990), 189.

  6.   Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto Death, 25.

  7.   Vincent A. McCarthy, The Phenomenology of Moods in Kierkegaard (Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 1978), 86–87.

  8.   Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto Death, 13.

  9.   Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto Death, 19.

10.   Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers, 5:334 entry 5913 (VII1 A 126, n.d., 1846).

11.   Søren Kierkegaard, “At a Graveside,” in Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1993), 84.

12.   Kierkegaard, “At a Graveside,” 87.

13.   Tim Farrington, A Hell of Mercy: A Meditation on Depression and the Dark Night of the Soul (San Francisco: HarperOne, 2009), 99.

14.   Farrington, A Hell of Mercy, 99.

15.   Linden Smith, “People Need to Grieve When Grieving Is in Order,” Star Tribune, September 24, 2017.

CHAPTER 3: DEATH

  1.   Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays, trans. T. Bailey Saunders (New York: Cosimo Classics), 105.

  2.   Søren Kierkegaard, Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1992), 165.

  3.   Kierkegaard, “At a Graveside,” 81.

  4.   William Barrett, The Illusion of Technique (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1979), 258.

CHAPTER 4: AUTHENTICITY

  1.   Gail Sheehy, Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life (New York: Bantam Books, 1976), 364, 513 as quoted by Charles Taylor, The Ethics of Authenticity (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1991), 44.

  2.   B. G. Yacobi, “The Limits of Authenticity,” Philosophy Now 92 (September–October 2012).

  3.   Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1995), 209.

  4.   Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage Books, 1974), 218.

  5.   Mike W. Martin, Self-Deception and Morality (Lawrence, Kansas: Univ. Press of Kansas, 1986), 75.

  6.   Taylor, The Ethics of Authenticity, 91.

CHAPTER 5: FAITH

  1.   Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, 121, 123.

  2.   Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, trans. E. F. J. Payne (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974), 2:298–99.

  3.   Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling/Repetition, ed. and trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1983), 15.

  4.   Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto Death, 53.

  5.   Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety, 78–79.

  6.   Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto Death, 117–18.

  7.   Kierkegaard, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, 201.

  8.   Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety, 139–40.

  9.   Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety, 71.

CHAPTER 6: MORALITY

  1.   Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism, ed. John Kulka, trans. Carol Macomber (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2007).

  2.   Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 89.

  3.   Jean-Paul Sartre, “Existentialism,” in Existentialism and Human Emotions, trans. Bernard Frechtman (New York: Citadel Press, 1985), 34.

  4.   Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, trans. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale, ed. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage Books, 1989), 31.

  5.   Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, 49.

  6.   Friedrich Nietzsche, Writings of Nietzsche, Volume II, ed. Anthony Uyl (Ontario: Devoted Publishing, 2016), 101.

  7.   J. S. Mill, “On Civilization,” in Dissertations and Discussion: Political, Philosophical and Historical (London: John W. Parker and Son, 1859), vol. I, 180–81.

  8.   Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, 25.

  9.   Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, 66.

10.   Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, 39.

11.   Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard’s Journals and Papers, 1:285, Addition to 85:8.

12.   Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto Death, 91.

13.   Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto Death, 94.

14.   Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto Death, 94.

15.   Gordon Marino, “What’s the Use of Regret,” New York Times, November 12, 2016, SR8.

CHAPTER 7: LOVE

  1.   Albert Camus, The Fall, trans. Justin O’Brien (New York: Vintage Books, 1984), 28.

  2.   Kierkegaard, Works of Love, 89.

  3.   Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, ed. and trans. Michael R. Katz (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), 59–60.

  4.   Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, 66–67.

  5.   Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, 82–83.

  6.   Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, 84–85.

EPILOGUE

  1.   Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks, 6:134, 225, Journal NB: 12.