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Abstract
This essay addresses the role of anxiety in human existence as a free and responsible self. Drawing on the works of Brentano, Husserl, Scheler, Heidegger, and Sartre, I point out how the phenomenological tradition rediscovered the importance of anxiety as a special kind of affective intentionality. From this perspective, I compare Kierkegaard’s conception of anxiety with the phenomenological analyses offered by Heidegger and Sartre. Finally, I argue that Kierkegaard’s approach to anxiety can throw light on the origin of the enigmatic human condition that Sartre later characterizes with his famous phrase that we are condemned to freedom.
