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The Sickness Unto Death: A New Translation

The Sickness Unto Death: A New Translation

Kierkegaard, Søren
Kirmmse, Bruce H.

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Philosophy

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ISBN10: 132409124X
ISBN13: 9781324091240
Publisher: Liveright Pub Corp
Published: Feb 14 2023
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.35
Language: English
The greatest psychologist of the spirit since St. Augustine (Gregory R. Beabout), S ren 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.

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