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Kierkegaard's the Sickness unto Death A Critical Guide.

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Presents new approaches to one of Kierkegaard's most important texts, shedding light on themes such as selfhood, despair, and sin.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Hanson, Jeffrey (Editor), Krishek, Sharon (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Series:Cambridge critical guides.
Subjects:
Kierkegaard, Søren, > 1813-1855. > Sygdommen til døden.
Sin > Christianity.
Despair > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Sygdommen til døden (Kierkegaard, Søren)
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Series information
  • Title page
  • Copyright information
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Kierkegaard's Place of Rest
  • Introduction
  • Kierkegaard's Method
  • Sin, Forgiveness, Christ
  • Christ Is Near
  • But We Must Dig Deeper
  • ''The Tax Collector'' and ''The Woman Who Was a Sinner''
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 2 Publishing The Sickness unto Death: A Lesson in Double-Mindedness
  • The Decision to Publish The Sickness unto Death
  • Kierkegaard's Double-Mindedness.
  • ''I Came to Understand Myself by Writing''
  • Chapter 3 Kierkegaard on the Self and the Modern Debate on Selfhood
  • The Human Being and the Self
  • Degrees of Selfhood and Types of Despair
  • The Self in Relation to God
  • Self-Constitution without a Telos?
  • Chapter 4 From Here to Eternity: Soteriological Selves and Time
  • The Great Discoveries
  • The Non-Substantialist Self
  • Selfhood and Judgment
  • The Temporality of Despair and Eternity
  • Express Train to Eternity
  • Chapter 5 Kierkegaard's Metaphysics of the Self
  • Introduction.
  • Identity and Appearances: Competing Senses of Phenomenology
  • The Abstract Self
  • Chapter 6 The Experience of Possibility (and of Its Absence): The Metaphysics of Moods in Kierkegaard's Phenomenological Psychology
  • On Being All Too Earthly
  • Consequences of Depression
  • On Being All Too Ethereal
  • Infinitude and the Finite
  • Chapter 7 Sin, Despair, and the Self
  • Introduction
  • The Relation between Part One and Part Two
  • The Theological Self in Part Two
  • Types of Despair: A Comparison
  • Wholeheartedness: How Morality and Christian Virtues Overcome Despair.
  • Chapter 8 Sin and Virtues
  • Introduction
  • Sin
  • Virtue and Selfhood
  • The Opposite of Sin Is Not Virtue but Faith
  • Peculiarities of Christian Virtues
  • Dependence on Grace
  • Inverse Dialectic
  • Sin-Reference of Virtues
  • Imperfection of Virtues in This Life
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 9 Despair as Sin: The Christian and the Socratic
  • Despair and Faith
  • Despair without Sin
  • Despair as Sin
  • Despair Is Not Depression
  • Sin Is Not Ignorance
  • Sin Is Not Sins
  • Sins Are Rooted in Sin as Weakness and/or Defiance
  • Sin as ''Before God'': The Relational Self.
  • Chapter 10 Fastening the End and Knotting the Thread: Beginning Where Paganism Ends by Means of Paradox
  • Despair as Spiritlessness in Paganism
  • Despair as Sin in Christianity
  • The Socratic Definition of Sin
  • The Christian Doctrine of Hereditary Sin
  • Sin as a Position and Paradox
  • The Continuance and Intensification of Sin in the State of Sin
  • The Sin of Despairing over One's Sin
  • The Sin of Despairing of the Forgiveness of Sin
  • The Sin and Possibility of Offense in Dismissing Christianity as Untruth
  • Fastening the End and Tying the Knot.

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