Sickness Unto Death (International Kierkegaard Commentary)

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Contents ■■ . ■' t-utki^uardCommentary: '■(i kness unto Death ( opyright e1987 \i-r.sity Press, Macon, Georgia 31207 AH rights reserved Printed in the United States of America . I

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library / Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Sickness unto death. (International Kierkegaard commentary; 19) Includes index. 1. Kierkegaard, Seren, 1813-1855. Sygdommen til daden. 2. Sin. 3. Despair. I. Perkins, Robert L., 1930. II. Series. B4376.I58 vol. 19 1984 198'.9 s 87-5614 [BT715] [248] ISBN 0-86554-271-6 (alk. paper)

Acknowledgments Sigla Introduction I. The Definition of the Self and the Structure of Kierkegaard's Work JohnD. Glenn, Jr II. Spirit and the Idea of the Self as a Reflexive Relation Alastair Hannay

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III. Kierkegaard's Psychology and Unconscious Despair Merold Westphal ■.

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IV. Kierkegaard's Double Dialectic of Despair and Sin James L. Marsh

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V. The Sickness unto Death: Critique of the Modern Age Louis Dupre VI. The Social Dimension of Despair John W. Elrod VII. On "Feminine" and "Masculine" Forms of Despair Sylvial. Walsh VIII. The Grammar of Sin and the Conceptual Unity of The Sickness unto Death RobertC. Roberts

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CI, The Concept of Irony. Trans. Lee Capel. New York: Harper & Row, 1966; Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968. (On Begrebet Ironi, by S. Kierkegaard, 1841.) EO Either/Or. Volume 1. Trans. David F. Swenson and Lillian Marvin Swenson. Volume 2. Trans. Walter Lowrie. Second ed. rev. Howard A. Johnson. Princeton: Princeton Univer­ sity Press, 1971. (Enten-Eller, 1-2, ed. Victor Eremita, 1843.) ED Edifying Discourses, 1-4. Trans. David F. Swenson and Lillian Marvin Swenson. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1943-1946. (Opbyggelige Taler, by S. Kierkegaard, 1843,1844.) FT Fear and Trembling. Trans. Howard V. and Edna H. Hong. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. (Frygt og Bseven, by Johannes De Silentio, 1843.) R Repetition. Trans. Howard V. and Edna H. Hong. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. (Gjentagelsen, by Constan­ t s Constantius, 1843.) PF Philosophical Fragments and Johannes Climacus. Trans. Howard V. and Edna H. Hong. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. (Philosophiske Smuler, by Johannes Climacus, ed. S. Kierkegaard, 1844; "Johannes Climacus eller De omnibus dubitandum est," written 1842-1843, unpubl., Papirer IV B 1.) CA The Concept of Anxiety. Trans. Reidar Thomte and Albert B. Anderson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980. (Begrebet Angest, by Vigilius Haufniensis, ed. S. Kierkegaard, 1844.)

International Kierkegaard Commentary TCS Three Discourse:- on lin,i^in,?d Occasions [Thoughts on Crucial Situations in Hunuiii I itrl I tans. David F. Swenson, ed. Lillian Marvin SVWMMHI Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1941. (he lulf . rdt.viiktc Leiligheder, by S. Kierkegaard, 1845.) SLW S/,-.';.,'