Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide

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• ISBN 10:0691246130
• ISBN 13: 9780691246130
• Author: Samir Chopra

Today, anxiety is usually thought of as a pathology, the most diagnosed and medicated of all psychological disorders. But anxiety isn’t always or only a medical condition. Indeed, many philosophers argue that anxiety is a normal, even essential, part of being human, and that coming to terms with this fact is potentially transformative, allowing us to live more meaningful lives by giving us a richer understanding of ourselves. In Anxiety, Samir Chopra explores valuable insights about anxiety offered by ancient and modern philosophies—Buddhism, existentialism, psychoanalysis, and critical theory. Blending memoir and philosophy, he also tells how serious anxiety has affected his own life—and how philosophy has helped him cope with it.

Chopra shows that many philosophers—including the Buddha, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger—have viewed anxiety as an inevitable human response to existence: to be is to be anxious. Drawing on Karl Marx and Herbert Marcuse, Chopra examines how poverty and other material conditions can make anxiety worse, but he emphasizes that not even the rich can escape it. Nor can the medicated. Inseparable from the human condition, anxiety is indispensable for grasping it. Philosophy may not be able to cure anxiety but, by leading us to greater self-knowledge and self-acceptance, it may be able to make us less anxious about being anxious.

Table contents:

1. Acknowledgments
2. Our Age(s) of Anxiety
3. Becoming and Being Anxious
4. The Anxieties of Existence
5. Free to Be Anxious
6. The Death of Certainty
7. Faith, Spiritual Deliverance, and The Concept of Anxiety
8. The Courage to Be
9. The Uncanny Mood of Anxiety
10. Repression, Conflict, Memorable Trauma
11. Anxiety and the Social
12. Living with Anxiety

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