Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death

Soren Kierkegaard; translated by Walter Lowrie

ISBN 10: 0691019622 / ISBN 13: 9780691019628

Edité par Princeton University Press, 1974

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Fifth Printing, 1974. 278pp. Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Walter Lowrie. Bright & tight erstwhile remainder copy, unmarked & unread, in Near Fine condition. "Walter Lowrie's classic, bestselling translation of Søren 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 come to define his contribution to philosophy. Lowrie's translation, first published in 1941 and later revised, was the first in English, and it has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to Kierkegaard's thought. Kierkegaard counted FEAR AND TREMBLING and THE SICKNESS UNTO DEATH among 'the most perfect books I have written,' and in them he introduces two terms--'the absurd' and 'despair'--that have become key terms in modern thought. FEAR AND TREMBLING takes up the story of Abraham and Isaac to explore a faith that transcends the ethical, persists in the face of the absurd, and meets its reward in the return of all that the faithful one is willing to sacrifice, while THE SICKNESS UNTO DEATH examines the spiritual anxiety of despair." [publisher copy] "Writing under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, Kierkegaard explores the concept of despair,' alerting readers to the diversity of ways in which they may be described as living in this state of bleak abandonment--including some that may seem just the opposite--and offering a much-discussed formula for the eradication of despair. With its penetrating account of the self, this late work by Kierkegaard was hugely influential upon twentieth-century philosophers including Karl Jaspers, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. THE SICKNESS UNTO DEATH can be regarded as one of the key works of theistic existentialist thought--a brilliant and revelatory answer to one man's struggle to fill the spiritual void." [Penguin's blurb] Near Fine paperback w/brilliant corners & edges w/slight trembling but no tears, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Quite presentable, for a 50-year-old academic paperback.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death
• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date de parution: 1974
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0691019622
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780691019628
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Near Fine

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