Kierkegaard`s Writings, XIX, Volume 19 – Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening - Softcover

Kierkegaard, Søren; Hong, Edna H.; Hong, Howard V.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691020280 ISBN 13: 9780691020280

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1992

Synopsis

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.

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Review

"The definitive edition of the Writings. The first volume . . . indicates the scholarly value of the entire series: an introduction setting the work in the context of Kierkegaard's development; a remarkably clear translation; and concluding sections of intelligent notes."--Library Journal

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691020280
• ISBN 13: 9780691020280
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232