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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (180817)1/31/2012 8:36:03 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (2) of 541671
 
Many of the early existentialists, both Sartre and Heidegger principally, read Kierkegaard as an early existentialist. Almost any history of existentialism you read starts at least with Kierkegaard and any respectable anthology will include some of Kierkegaard.

If I understand koan correctly, he's arguing that existentialism was premised on a belief in a secular world, single storied universe, and so on. And he reads Kierkegaard as not doing so, ergo the reference to Darwin.

I think the better watershed is Nietzsche. In philosophy, much is pre and post N. Then the question becomes just how Kierkegaard is read as in the same tradition as Nietzsche. Obviously, if the criteria is belief in some sort of supernatural being and since you can read Kierkegaard as having such a belief, that makes the two incompatible. But a lot of philosophy did not do so, including at least Sartre and Heidegger.
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