Kierkegaard's Writings, XIX, Volume 19: Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780691020280)

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: Sen Kierkegaard
ISBN-10: 0691020280
ISBN-13: 9780691020280
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/21/1983
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d