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One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, famed for the depth and acuity of its modern psychological insights

A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues S ren Kierkegaard's radical and comprehensive analysis of human nature in a spectrum of possibilities of existence. Present here is a remarkable combination of the insight of the poet and the contemplation... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety , this work continues S ren Kierkegaard's radical and comprehensive analysis of human nature in a spectrum of possibilities of existence. Present here is a remarkable combination of the insight of the poet and the contemplation of the... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

La enfermedad mortal (1849) es un ensayo existencialista cristiano escrito por el filósofo danés Soren Kierkegaard. El libro aborda el concepto de la desesperación, el cual es tratado como una «enfermedad mortal» cuyo origen se encuentra en la incomodidad que provoca no querer... Read Full Overview

Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation which accounts for it] that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but ... Read Full Overview

Walter Lowrie's classic, bestselling translation of S ren Kierkegaard's most important and popular books remains unmatched for its readability and literary quality. Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death established Kierkegaard as the father of existentialism and have... Read Full Overview

Influencing philosophers such as Sartre and Camus, and still strikingly modern in its psychological insights, Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death explores the concept of 'despair' as a symptom of the human condition and describes man's struggle to fill the spiritual... Read Full Overview

S?ren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a philosopher, theologian, satirist, and world-historical individual. In THE SICKNESS UNTO DEATH Kierkegaard unflinchingly explores the problem of despair, thereby forging a sort of Christian psychology/philosophy of the subject. "Is despair... Read Full Overview

El Tratado de la Desesperaci n es lectura obligada para los que buscan la Verdad. El autor utiliza todo su esfuerzo ps quico e intelectual para desentra ar el papel de la angustia en nuestras vidas. "Los verdaderos desesperados no son necesariamente los que se confiesan desesperados,... Read Full Overview

Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation [which accounts for it] that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but [consists... Read Full Overview

Kierkegaard explora el concepto de "desesperaci n", alertando a los lectores sobre la diversidad de formas en que pueden describirse como viviendo en este estado de sombr o abandono, incluidos algunos que pueden parecer todo lo contrario, y ofrecer una f rmula muy discutida para... Read Full Overview

Tratado de la desesperaci n, libro escrito en la etapa madura de su vida, S ren trata de edificar al hombre a medida que plantea la restauraci n del valor del individuo; en palabras del propio fil sofo: "El asunto es encontrar una verdad que sea cierta para m , encontrar la idea... Read Full Overview

S ren Kierkegaard: Die Krankheit zum Tode. Eine christlich-psychologische Entwicklung zur Erbauung und Erweckung Sygdommen til D den. Erschienen 1849 unter dem Pseudonym Anti-Climacus. Hier in der bersetzung von Christoph Schrempf und Hermann Gottsched, Jena, 1912. Vollst ndige... Read Full Overview

Con La enfermedad mortal Kierkegaard contin a y profundiza su anterior El concepto de la angustia. Las dos obras pertenecen a la etapa literaria m s madura del escritor y el tema dominante en ambas es el mismo: el pecado original. La angustia constituye para Kierkegaard el punto... Read Full Overview