Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening -- Søren Kierkegaard, Paperback
A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues S ren 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.Author: Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 11/21/1983
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65 lbs
Size: 8.4" H x 5.5" L x 0.6" W
ISBN: 9780691020280
