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The Sickness Unto Death: Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol 19
The Sickness Unto Death Kierkegaard's Writings Vol 19 Author:Soren Kierkegaard, Edna H. Hong (Editor) Howard V. Hong (Editor) 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... more »em>, 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.« less