Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening by Sren Kierkegaard

Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening by Sren Kierkegaard

A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues Soren 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.

"The definitive edition of the WritingsThe 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

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ISBN 13	9780691020280
ISBN 10	0691020280
Title	Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
Author	Søren Kierkegaard
Series	Kierkegaard's Writings
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Year published	1983-11-21
Number of pages	232
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