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List of contents
Introduction: Jeffrey Hanson and Sharon Krishek; 1. Kierkegaard's place of rest George Pattison; 2. Publishing the Sickness unto Death: A Lesson in Double-Mindedness Clare Carlisle; 3. Kierkegaard on the Self and the modern debate on selfhood Anthony Rudd; 4. From here to eternity: Soteriological selves and time Patrick Stokes; 5. Kierkegaard's metaphysics of the self Eleanor Helms; 6. The experience of possibility (and of its absence): The metaphysics of moods in Kierkegaard's phenomenological psychology Rick Anthony Furtak; 7. Sin, Despair, and the self Roe Fremstedal; 8. Sin and virtues Robert C. Roberts; 9. Despair as sin: The Christian and the Socratic Merold Westphal; 10. Fastening the end and knotting the thread: Beginning where paganism ends by means of paradox Sylvia Walsh; 11. Despair the disease and faith the therapeutic cure Jeffrey Hanson; 12. The long journey to oneself: The existential import of The Sickness unto Death Sharon Krishek; 13. Accountability to God in The Sickness unto Death: Kierkegaard's relational understanding of the human self C. Stephen Evans.
About the author
Jeffrey Hanson is Senior Philosopher in the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. He is the author of Kierkegaard and the Life of Faith: The Aesthetic, the Ethical, and the Religious in 'Fear and Trembling' (2017) and the editor of Kierkegaard as Phenomenologist: An Experiment (2010).Sharon Krishek is Lecturer in Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Kierkegaard on Faith and Love (Cambridge, 2009), Kierkegaard's Philosophy of Love (in Hebrew, 2011) and Lovers in Essence: A Kierkegaardian Defense of Romantic Love (2022).
Summary
Despite the importance of The Sickness unto Death to Kierkegaard scholarship, it has been somewhat overlooked. This book applies diverse approaches to the work, explaining complex issues in clear language. It will be required reading for those interested in Kierkegaard as well as existentialism, religious philosophy, and moral psychology.
Foreword
Presents new approaches to one of Kierkegaard's most important texts, shedding light on themes such as selfhood, despair, and sin.
