The concept of anxiety : a simple psychologically orienting deliberation on the dogmatic issue of hereditary sin / by Soren Kierkegaard ; edited and translated with introd. and notes by Reidar Thomte, in collaboration with Albert B. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.

Contributor:

Thomte, Reidar.

Anderson, Albert, 1928-

Series:

Kierkegaard, Soren, 1813-1855. English. 1978 ; Works. 8.

Kierkegaard's writings ; 8

Kierkegaard's Writings

Standardized Title:

Begrebet angest. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sin, Original.

Psychology, Religious.

Anxiety--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Anxiety.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (482 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1980.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This edition replaces the earlier translation by Walter Lowrie that appeared under the title The Concept of Dread. Along with The Sickness unto Death, the work reflects from a psychological point of view Søren Kierkegaard's longstanding concern with the Socratic maxim, "Know yourself." His ontological view of the self as a synthesis of body, soul, and spirit has influenced philosophers such as Heidegger and Sartre, theologians such as Jaspers and Tillich, and psychologists such as Rollo May. In The Concept of Anxiety, Kierkegaard describes the nature and forms of anxiety, placing the domain of anxiety within the mental-emotional states of human existence that precede the qualitative leap of faith to the spiritual state of Christianity. It is through anxiety that the self becomes aware of its dialectical relation between the finite and the infinite, the temporal and the eternal.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION

The Concept of Anxiety

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

I. Anxiety as the Presupposition of Hereditary Sin and as Explaining Hereditary Sin Retrogressively in Terms of Its Origin

II. Anxiety as Explaining Hereditary Sin Progressively

III. Anxiety as the Consequence of that Sin which Is Absence of the Consciousness of Sin

IV. Anxiety of Sin or Anxiety as the Consequence of Sin in the Single Individual

V. Anxiety as Saving through Faith

SUPPLEMENT

EDITORIAL APPENDIX

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

Translation of Begrebet angest.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781299456402

1299456405

9781400846979

1400846978

OCLC:

845249337