Kierkegaard's Writings, XIX, Volume 19: Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

di Soren Kierkegaard (Autore)

Princeton University Press, 1983

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.

• Autore: Soren Kierkegaard
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Collana: Kierkegaard's Writings
• Anno: 1983
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 232 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Peso: 28 gr.
• EAN: 9780691020280

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