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The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin Paperback – January 5, 2015
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The first new translation of Kierkegaard's masterwork in a generation brings to vivid life this essential work of modern philosophy.
Brilliantly synthesizing human insights with Christian dogma, Soren Kierkegaard presented, in 1844, The Concept of Anxiety as a landmark "psychological deliberation," suggesting that our only hope in overcoming anxiety was not through "powder and pills" but by embracing it with open arms. While Kierkegaard's Danish prose is surprisingly rich, previous translations―the most recent in 1980―have marginalized the work with alternately florid or slavishly wooden language. With a vibrancy never seen before in English, Alastair Hannay, the world's foremost Kierkegaard scholar, has finally re-created its natural rhythm, eager that this overlooked classic will be revivified as the seminal work of existentialism and moral psychology that it is.
From The Concept of Anxiety:
"And no Grand Inquisitor has such frightful torments in readiness as has anxiety, and no secret agent knows as cunningly how to attack the suspect in his weakest moment, or to make so seductive the trap in which he will be snared; and no discerning judge understands how to examine, yes, exanimate the accused as does anxiety, which never lets him go, not in diversion, not in noise, not at work, not by day, not by night."
- Print length256 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherLiveright
- Publication dateJanuary 5, 2015
- Dimensions5.6 x 0.7 x 8.3 inches
- ISBN-101631490044
- ISBN-13978-1631490040
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About the Author
Alastair Hannay is an emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Oslo. Besides several works on Kierkegaard, including a biography, he has previously translated six volumes of Kierkegaard's writings.
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- Publisher : Liveright; Reprint edition (January 5, 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1631490044
- ISBN-13 : 978-1631490040
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.6 x 0.7 x 8.3 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #45,153 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a 19th century Danish philosopher and theologian, generally recognized as the first existentialist philosopher.
Photo by Neils Christian Kierkegaard [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
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Kierkegaard, or should I say Vigilius Haufniensis, got me straight in the heart in this one, especially in the last chapter.
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Also Dr. Hannay's translation is very good and reliable.
Highly recommendable book!