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Kierkegaard's Writings, XIX, Volume 19 : Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening / Søren Kierkegaard; ed. by Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Kierkegaard's Writings ; 86Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1980Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691020280
  • 9781400847020
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION -- The Sickness unto Death -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- Part One. THE SICKNESS UNTO DEATH IS DESPAIR -- Part Two. DESPAIR IS SIN -- SUPPLEMENT -- EDITORIAL APPENDIX -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE -- INDEX
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.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION -- The Sickness unto Death -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- Part One. THE SICKNESS UNTO DEATH IS DESPAIR -- Part Two. DESPAIR IS SIN -- SUPPLEMENT -- EDITORIAL APPENDIX -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE -- INDEX

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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