Although Soren Kierkegaard's death in the fall of 1855 foreshadowed
a lasting split between conservative Christians and young
contemporaries who saw him as a revolutionary thinker, it was not
until the turn of the twentieth century and beyond the borders of
his native Denmark that his lasting significance came to be felt.
By transcending distinctions of genre, Kierkegaard brought
traditionally separated disciplines to bear on deep human concerns
and was able, through his profound self-insight, to uncover the
strategies with which we try to deal with them. As a result, he is
hailed today as no less than the father of modern psychology and
existentialism.
While the majority of Kierkegaard's work leading up to The
Concept of Anxiety dealt with the intersection of faith and
knowledge, here the renowned Danish philosopher turns to the
perennial question of sin and guilt. First published in 1844, this
concise treatise identified long before Freud anxiety as a
deep-seated human state, one that embodies the endless struggle
with our own spiritual identities. Ably synthesizing human insights
with Christian dogma, Kierkegaard's "psychological deliberation"
suggests that our only hope in overcoming anxiety is not through
powder and pills but by embracing it with open arms. Indeed, for
Kierkegaard, it is only through our experiences with anxiety that
we are able to become truly aware of ourselves and the freedoms and
limitations of our own existence.
While Kierkegaard's Danish prose is surprisingly rich, previous
translations the most recent in 1980 have tended either to deaden
its impact by being excessively literal or to furnish it with a
florid tone foreign to its original directness. In this new
edition, Alastair Hannay re-creates its natural rhythm in a way
that will finally allow this overlooked classic not only to become
as celebrated as Fear and Trembling, The Sickness unto Death, and
Either/Or but also to earn a place as the seminal work of
existentialism and moral psychology that it is."
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