The Sickness Unto Death Contributor(s): Kierkegaard, Soren (Author) |
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ISBN: 1546583262 ISBN-13: 9781546583264 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $8.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
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BISAC Categories: - Philosophy |
Physical Information: 0.33" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.48 lbs) 156 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. |