A01=Michael Theunissen
Ambiguity
Analogy
Aporia
Arbitrariness
Aristotelianism
Author_Michael Theunissen
Bad faith (existentialism)
Being and Nothingness
Category=QDH
Concept
Conceptualization (information science)
Consciousness
Consummation
Contradiction
Critique
Dasein
Definition of man
Determination
Dialectic
Edmund Husserl
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Ethics
Existentialism
Existentiell
Explanation
Facticity
German Romanticism
Good and evil
Heteronomy
Immanence
Immanent critique
Inquiry
Jean-Paul Sartre
Martin Heidegger
Mephistopheles
Modernity
Nihilism
Objectivity (philosophy)
Ontology
Originality
Perversion
Phenomenon
Philosopher
Philosophy
Philosophy of Existence
Philosophy of history
Polemic
Positivism
Potentiality and actuality
Premise
Presumption (canon law)
Problematization
Reality
Reason
Renunciation
Self-love
Self-transcendence
Sin of omission
Skepticism
Soren Kierkegaard
Subject (philosophy)
The Concept of Anxiety
The Sickness Unto Death
Theology
Theory
Theory of Forms
Thomas Aquinas
Thought
Treatise
Uncertainty
Universality (philosophy)
Vagueness
World view
Product details
- ISBN 9780691095585
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 27 Mar 2005
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 Kierkegaard that bridge the gap between the Continental and analytic traditions in philosophy. Theunissen argues that for Kierkegaard, the fundamental characteristic of despair is the desire of the self "not to be what it is." He sorts through the apparently chaotic text of The Sickness unto Death to explain what Kierkegaard meant by the "self," how and why individuals want to flee their selves, and how he believed they could reconnect with their selves.
According to Theunissen, Kierkegaard thought that individuals in despair seek to deny their authentic selves to flee particular aspects of their character, their past, or the world, or in order to deny their "mission." In addition to articulating and evaluating Kierkegaard's concept of despair, Theunissen relates Kierkegaard's ideas to those of Heidegger, Sartre, and other twentieth-century philosophers.
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".
