Kierkegaard's Writings, XIX, Volume 19: Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues Søren Kierkegaard's radical and comprehensive analysis of human nature in a spectrum of possibilities of existence. Present here is a remarkable combination of the insight of the poet and the contemplation of the philosopher. In T...

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Main Author: Kierkegaard, Søren (Author)
Other Authors: Hong, Edna H. (Editor), Hong, Howard V. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2013]
Series:Kierkegaard's Writings
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Summary:A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues Søren Kierkegaard's radical and comprehensive analysis of human nature in a spectrum of possibilities of existence. Present here is a remarkable combination of the insight of the poet and the contemplation of the philosopher. In The Sickness unto Death, Kierkegaard moves beyond anxiety on the mental-emotional level to the spiritual level, where--in contact with the eternal--anxiety becomes despair. Both anxiety and despair reflect the misrelation that arises in the self when the elements of the synthesis--the infinite and the finite--do not come into proper relation to each other. Despair is a deeper expression for anxiety and is a mark of the eternal, which is intended to penetrate temporal existence
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019)
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9781400847020
DOI:10.1515/9781400847020

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