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How philosophy can teach us to be less anxious about being anxious by understanding that it's an essential part of being human

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.

Personal, poignant, and hopeful, Anxiety is a book for anyone who is curious about rethinking anxiety and learning why it might be a source not only of suffering but of insight.

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  • Title Anxiety: A Philosophical Guide
  • Author Samir Chopra
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press
  • Publication date 2025-11-04
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780691246147 / 0691246149
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.81 x 5.06 x 0.51 in (19.84 x 12.85 x 1.30 cm)
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Adjustment (Psychology), Anxiety - Philosophy
  • Dewey Decimal Code 152.46

About the author

Samir Chopra is a philosophical counselor and professor emeritus of philosophy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author and coauthor of many books, including Shyam Benegal: Philosopher and Filmmaker, A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents, and Eye on Cricket: Reflections on the Great Game. His essays have appeared in the Nation, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Aeon, Psyche, and other publications.

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