The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

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.

• Author
• Søren Kierkegaard, Edna Hatlestad Hong, سورن كيركجارد, Howard Vincent Hong, أسامة القفاش

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 201

• Publisher
• Princeton University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780691020280

• Genres
• philosophy, religion, theology, psychology, classics, christianity, danish, christian

• Release date
• 1983