The Sickness Unto Death - 9781542377355

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.

• | Author: Soren Kierkegaard
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Jan 06, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 156 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1542377358
• | ISBN-13: 9781542377355