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Kierkegaard´s Concept of Despair
Michael Theunissen
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Description for Kierkegaard´s Concept of Despair
Paperback. Translator(s): Illbruck, Helmut. Series: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPM; HRAM1; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 246.
The literature on Kierkegaard is often content to paraphrase. By contrast, Michael Theunissen articulates one of Kierkegaard's central ideas, his theory of despair, in a detailed and comprehensible manner and confronts it with alternatives. Understanding what Kierkegaard wrote on despair is vital not only because it illuminates his thought as a whole, but because his account of despair in The Sickness unto Death is the cornerstone of existentialism. Theunissen's book, published in German in 1993, is widely regarded as the best treatment of the subject in any language. Kierkegaard's Concept of Despair is also one of the few works on ... Read more
The literature on Kierkegaard is often content to paraphrase. By contrast, Michael Theunissen articulates one of Kierkegaard's central ideas, his theory of despair, in a detailed and comprehensible manner and confronts it with alternatives. Understanding what Kierkegaard wrote on despair is vital not only because it illuminates his thought as a whole, but because his account of despair in The Sickness unto Death is the cornerstone of existentialism. Theunissen's book, published in German in 1993, is widely regarded as the best treatment of the subject in any language. Kierkegaard's Concept of Despair is also one of the few works on ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691163123
SKU
V9780691163123
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About Michael Theunissen
Michael Theunissen is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Freie Universitat Berlin. He is the author of many books, including Vorentwurfe von Moderne: Antike Melancholie und die Acedia des Mitterlalter and Negative Theologie der Zeit.
Reviews for Kierkegaard´s Concept of Despair
This is the first book to undertake a sustained, straightforward, analytically rigorous reconstruction of a central pillar of Kierkegaard's thought, his understanding of despair. It provides an extremely useful framework for future analytic work on Kierkegaard. What Theunissen seeks to do is precisely the kind of project Kierkegaard scholars ought to be undertaking. The book will be of great interest ... Read more