The “greatest psychologist of the spirit since St. Augustine”
(Gregory R. Beabout), Soren Kierkegaard is renowned for such richly
imagined philosophical works as Fear and Trembling and The Concept
of Anxiety. Yet only The Sickness unto Death condenses his most
essential ideas—on aesthetics, ethics, and religion—into a
single volume. First published in 1849 under the pseudonym
Anti-Climacus, The Sickness unto Death is as demanding as it is
concise, posing fundamental yet complicated questions about human
nature and the self. Beginning with the biblical story of Lazarus,
whom Jesus miraculously raised from the dead, The Sickness unto
Death identifies the titular “sickness” as “despair,” a
state worse than death because it is “unto” death. As
Kierkegaard demonstrates, despair—or, in Christian categories,
“sin”—is a sickness not of the body, but of the spirit, and
thus, of the self. A dramatic “medical history” of the course
of this sickness, The Sickness unto Death culminates, as all
medical histories do, in a crisis, a turning point at which the
self, the patient, either realizes or abandons itself. Given the
choice between eternal salvation and extinction, Kierkegaard calls
upon the self to become receptive in faith to God’s mercy,
“even today, even at this hour, even at this instant.” With his
“historian’s eye” (Vanessa Parks Rumble) and “lucid and
informative” (George Pattison) introduction, Bruce H. Kirmmse
deftly situates The Sickness unto Death in the historical context
of the European revolutions of 1848, reminding us that even
Kierkegaard was a product of his time and place. Yet as Kirmmse
ultimately shows, The Sickness unto Death is as apt for our times
as for mid-nineteenth-century Europe, speaking to the human soul
across generations and centuries.
General
| Imprint: |
W W Norton & Co Inc
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
February 2024 |
| Authors: |
Søren Kierkegaard
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| Translators: |
Bruce H. Kirmmse
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| Dimensions: |
210 x 140mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
224 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-324-09448-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-324-09448-6 |
| Barcode: |
9781324094487 |
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