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The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition For Upbuilding And Awakening

By Soren Kierkegaard , Howard V. Hong , Edna H. Hong

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1983
ISBN
0691020280, 9780691020280
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
17 MB (17369873 bytes)
Series
Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol 19) (v. 19
Pages
201\0
Time added
2013-12-22 19:00:40

Description

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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