The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin [Kierkegaard's Writings, VIII]

Kierkegaard, Soren; Reidar Thomte, and Albert B. Anderson, eds and trans

ISBN 10: 0691020280 / ISBN 13: 9780691020280

Published by Princeton University Press, 1983

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Paperback. Previous owner's stamp on ffep and page 41. Heavy red pen underlining and markings with highlighting. Slight wear on lower edge of text. Cover slightly worn in lower corners. Else good 201 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin [Kierkegaard's Writings, VIII]
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0691020280
• ISBN 13: 9780691020280
• Binding: Soft cover

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Synopsis

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.

Language Notes

Text: English, Danish (translation)