Kierkegaard's Writings, XIX, Volume 19 : : Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening / / Søren Kierkegaard; ed. by Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Kierkegaard, Søren,
• HerausgeberIn: Hong, Edna H.,; Hong, Howard V.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Kierkegaard's Writings ; 86
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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