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Format:

Book

Author:

Title:

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

Publisher, Date:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1980]

Description:

xviii, 273 pages ; 23 cm.

Summary:

"[This book] 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"--Amazon.com.

Series:

Kierkegaard's writings ; 8

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

Subjects:

Sin, Original.

Psychology, Religious.

Anxiety -- Religious aspects.

Other Author:

Thomte, Reidar, editor, translator, writer of introduction.

Anderson, Albert, 1928- editor, translator, writer of introduction.

Other Title:

Begrebet angest. English

Notes:

Translation of: Begrebet angest.

Includes bibliographical references (page 257) and index.

In English, translated from the Danish.

Contents:

Anxiety as the presupposition of hereditary sin and as explaining hereditary sin retrogressively in terms of its origin -- Anxiety as explaining hereditary sin progressively -- Anxiety as the consequence of that sin which is absense of the consciousness of sin -- Anxiety of sin or anxiety as the consequence of sin in the single individual -- Anxiety as saving through faith.

Web Site:

Publisher description

LCCN:

79003217

ISBN:

9780691072449

0691072442

9780691020112

0691020116

Other Number:

5494194

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

730089

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# System items in:

1

Call Number:

233.14 Kierkega