Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death: A Critical Guide

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Jeffrey Hanson (Harvard University, Massachusetts) Sharon Krishek (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death

A Critical Guide

Jeffrey Hanson (Harvard University, Massachusetts), Sharon Krishek (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

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English

Cambridge University Press
11 April 2024

Philosophy; Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900; Theology

Series: Cambridge Critical Guides

The Sickness unto Death (1849) is commonly regarded as one of Kierkegaard's most important works – but also as one of his most difficult texts to understand. It is a meditation on Christian existentialist themes including sin, despair, religious faith and its redemptive power, and the relation and difference between physical and spiritual death. This volume of new essays guides readers through the philosophical and theological significance of the work, while clarifying the complicated ideas that Kierkegaard develops. Some of the essays focus closely on particular themes, others attempt to elucidate the text as a whole, and yet others examine it in relation to other philosophical views. Bringing together these diverse approaches, the volume offers a comprehensive understanding of this pivotal work. It will be of interest to those studying Kierkegaard as well as existentialism, religious philosophy, and moral psychology.

Edited by: Jeffrey Hanson (Harvard University Massachusetts), Sharon Krishek (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781108793308
ISBN 10: 1108793304
Series: Cambridge Critical Guides
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 11 April 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Jeffrey Hanson and Sharon Krishek; 1. Kierkegaard's place of rest George Pattison; 2. Publishing the Sickness unto Death: A Lesson in Double-Mindedness Clare Carlisle; 3. Kierkegaard on the Self and the modern debate on selfhood Anthony Rudd; 4. From here to eternity: Soteriological selves and time Patrick Stokes; 5. Kierkegaard's metaphysics of the self Eleanor Helms; 6. The experience of possibility (and of its absence): The metaphysics of moods in Kierkegaard's phenomenological psychology Rick Anthony Furtak; 7. Sin, Despair, and the self Roe Fremstedal; 8. Sin and virtues Robert C. Roberts; 9. Despair as sin: The Christian and the Socratic Merold Westphal; 10. Fastening the end and knotting the thread: Beginning where paganism ends by means of paradox Sylvia Walsh; 11. Despair the disease and faith the therapeutic cure Jeffrey Hanson; 12. The long journey to oneself: The existential import of The Sickness unto Death Sharon Krishek; 13. Accountability to God in The Sickness unto Death: Kierkegaard's relational understanding of the human self C. Stephen Evans.

Jeffrey Hanson is Senior Philosopher in the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. He is the author of Kierkegaard and the Life of Faith: The Aesthetic, the Ethical, and the Religious in 'Fear and Trembling' (2017) and the editor of Kierkegaard as Phenomenologist: An Experiment (2010). Sharon Krishek is Lecturer in Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Kierkegaard on Faith and Love (Cambridge, 2009), Kierkegaard's Philosophy of Love (in Hebrew, 2011) and Lovers in Essence: A Kierkegaardian Defense of Romantic Love (2022).