An Existential Phenomenology of Addiction

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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	I Previous research on addiction
	II Existential phenomenology as a context of discourse
	III Terminology and chapter overview
Part One
	Chapter 1: Existing discourses on addiction
		I An evolving concept: The history of addiction
		II Addiction as physiological
		III Addiction as psychological
		IV Addiction as relational
		Conclusion
Part Two
	Chapter 2: The phenomenology of Lévinas: Religion, relation and desire
		I The phenomenology of Lévinas
		II Lévinas on ethical response
		III Applying the subject–other relation to addiction
		Conclusion
	Chapter 3: Lévinas: The hopeful relation preceding freedom
		I Lévinas on freedom
		II Ethics: Revelation and communication
		III Defining addiction as dialogue
		Conclusion
Part Three
	Chapter 4: The existentialism of Kierkegaard: Hopeful experience and entangled freedom
		I Kierkegaard as thinker
		II Kierkegaard’s subject: Anxiety, hope and freedom
		III Applying Kierkegaard’s subject-relation to addiction
		Conclusion
	Chapter 5: Kierkegaard: Relating to the other as love
		I Kierkegaard’s other-relation as love
		II God and neighbour: The other-relation as love
		III Applying the subject–other relation to addiction
		Conclusion
Part Four
	Chapter 6: Lévinas and Kierkegaard: Hope and love in relational subjectivity
		I The separate self (prior to subjectivity)
		II Subject as for-the-other
		III The subject–other relation in suffering
		Conclusion
	Chapter 7: A hopeful dialogue of addiction: Lévinas, Kierkegaard and the Twelve Steps
		I Subject: Addict or addicted?
		II The other and the peer-relation
		III God as Higher Power
		IV Beyond addiction?
		Conclusion
Conclusion
	I Background and methodology
	II Understanding addiction through Kierkegaard and Lévinas
	III Final thoughts on addiction and experience
Notes
	Introduction
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Conclusion
Bibliography
Index