ABSTRACT
The philosophies of existence attach great importance to the idea of Being. The idea of Being was already present in Kierkegaard’s thought, but it occupies a much more prominent position, a much more explicit position in the philosophies of Heidegger and Karl Jaspers. It is very difficult to determine whether such observations are objections or whether, by accentuating the paradox, they reinforce the Kierkegaardian conception. The same is true of the questions raised by the relations between subjectivity and history, the intensity of the subjective feeling being based, paradoxically, on a historical and objective fact. Perhaps with the objections that philosophers such as Reuter and Käte Nadler and Etienne Gilson address to Kierkegaardian thought, philosophers come, on the other hand, to a set of criticisms which, should they prove valid, would undermine the very possibility of such thought.
