num_pages: 226
description: 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: English
title: The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
titlecomplete: The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
genres: Religion, Theology, Philosophy, Danish, Christian, Psychology, Classics, Nonfiction, Christianity, 19th Century
ratings_count: 10201
publisher: Princeton University Press