- 282 pages
- English
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About this book
The Sickness unto Death (1849) is commonly regarded as one of Kierkegaard's most important works – but also as one of his most difficult texts to understand. It is a meditation on Christian existentialist themes including sin, despair, religious faith and its redemptive power, and the relation and difference between physical and spiritual death. This volume of new essays guides readers through the philosophical and theological significance of the work, while clarifying the complicated ideas that Kierkegaard develops. Some of the essays focus closely on particular themes, others attempt to elucidate the text as a whole, and yet others examine it in relation to other philosophical views. Bringing together these diverse approaches, the volume offers a comprehensive understanding of this pivotal work. It will be of interest to those studying Kierkegaard as well as existentialism, religious philosophy, and moral psychology.
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Topic
PhilosophySubtopic
Modern PhilosophyTable of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Kierkegaard's Place of Rest
- Chapter 2 Publishing The Sickness unto Death: A Lesson in Double-Mindedness
- Chapter 3 Kierkegaard on the Self and the Modern Debate on Selfhood
- Chapter 4 From Here to Eternity: Soteriological Selves and Time
- Chapter 5 Kierkegaard's Metaphysics of the Self
- Chapter 6 The Experience of Possibility (and of Its Absence): The Metaphysics of Moods in Kierkegaard's Phenomenological Psychology
- Chapter 7 Sin, Despair, and the Self
- Chapter 8 Sin and Virtues
- Chapter 9 Despair as Sin: The Christian and the Socratic
- Chapter 10 Fastening the End and Knotting the Thread: Beginning Where Paganism Ends by Means of Paradox
- Chapter 11 Despair the Disease and Faith the Therapeutic Cure
- Chapter 12 The Long Journey to Oneself: The Existential Import of The Sickness unto Death
- Chapter 13 Accountability to God in The Sickness unto Death: Kierkegaard's Relational Understanding of the Human Self
- Bibliography
- Index
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