Kierkegaard's writings, XIX

• Verfasst von: Kierkegaard, Søren [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Kierkegaard's writings, XIX
• Titelzusatz: Sickness unto aeath : a Christian psychological exposition for upbuilding and awakening
• Mitwirkende: Hong, Howard Vincent [HerausgeberIn] [ÜbersetzerIn]
• Mitwirkende: Hong, Edna [HerausgeberIn] [ÜbersetzerIn]
• Verf.angabe: by Søren Kierkegaard ; edited and translated with introduction and notes by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong
• Verlagsort: Princeton, New Jersey
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Jahr: 2013
• Jahr des Originals: 1980
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 201 Seiten)
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Kierkegaard's writings ; 19
• Schrift/Sprache: In English
• ISBN: 978-1-4008-4702-0
• ComputerInfo: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• DOI: doi:10.1515/9781400847020
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: PHILOSOPHY / Religious
• K10plus-PPN: 168598407X
• K10plus-PPN:
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• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

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

Abstract

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