Schelling-Kierkegaard. The Genesis of Contemporary Anxiety.

Our project attempts an elucidation of Schelling's thinking in Kierkegaard's work. This heritage has been traditionally limited by historiography to the mere contact between them in Berlin (1841-1842). Schelling's late work gave him, indeed, the elements to develop a critique of Hegel's work. But we are to demonstrate that Schelling's effects in Kierkegaard's works are more deep, from the perspective of Schelling's doctrine of liberty and his reflexion about the origin of the world from a orginary wish or will, that was developed in the middle period of his philosophy. These reflections had an acurate impact in the dialectic of the desire in Kierkegaard's Either/or; and even more in his analysis of freedom's vertigo in front of the nothingness, as depicted in The concept of Anxiety and The Sickness unto Death.

We are convinced that it is possible, thus, to understand the true origin of the concept of anxiety that, through Kierkegaard, affects contemporary mind, as it is shown in authors like Heidegger, in Being and Time, or Sartre, in Being and Nothingness.