Kierkegaard's Writings, XIX: Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Religious
| Author: | Søren Kierkegaard, Edna H. Hong, Howard V. Hong | ISBN: | 9781400847020 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press | Publication: | April 21, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Søren Kierkegaard, Edna H. Hong, Howard V. Hong |
| ISBN: | 9781400847020 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Publication: | April 21, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
