Name: The Sickness Unto Death: A new Translation
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Author: Søren Kierkegaard
ISBN: 9781324091240

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The Sickness Unto Death: A new Translation

Type

Physical Book

Author

Søren Kierkegaard

Translated by

Bruce H. Kirmmse

Publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation

Year

2023

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.2 x 14.0 x 2.4 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9781324091240

Synopsis "The Sickness Unto Death: A new Translation "

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.

Søren Kierkegaard

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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (Copenhague, 1813-1855) fue un filósofo, teólogo y escritor danés considerado el padre del existencialismo. Su obra se centra en la angustia, la libertad, la fe y la paradoja de la existencia humana, explorando siempre la relación entre el individuo y Dios. En Temor y temblor, uno de sus textos más influyentes, reflexiona sobre la figura bíblica de Abraham y el sacrificio de Isaac, planteando la tensión entre la ética universal y el deber religioso individual, una paradoja que muestra los límites de la razón frente a la fe.

Kierkegaard escribió bajo múltiples seudónimos, lo que le permitió desplegar diferentes estilos y perspectivas en sus libros. Sus reflexiones fueron poco comprendidas en su tiempo, pero hoy son referencia indispensable en la filosofía moderna, la teología y la literatura. Sus ideas han influido en autores como Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger y Simone de Beauvoir, consolidando su papel como pionero de la filosofía existencial.

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