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- Kierkegaard’s The Sickness unto Death
- Cambridge Critical Guides
- Kierkegaard’s The Sickness unto Death
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Kierkegaard’s Place of Rest
- Chapter 2 Publishing The Sickness unto Death
- Chapter 3 Kierkegaard on the Self and the Modern Debate on Selfhood
- Chapter 4 From Here to Eternity
- Chapter 5 Kierkegaard’s Metaphysics of the Self
- Chapter 6 The Experience of Possibility (and of Its Absence)
- Chapter 7 Sin, Despair, and the Self
- Chapter 8 Sin and Virtues
- Chapter 9 Despair as Sin
- Chapter 10 Fastening the End and Knotting the Thread
- Chapter 11 Despair the Disease and Faith the Therapeutic Cure
- Chapter 12 The Long Journey to Oneself
- Chapter 13 Accountability to God in The Sickness unto Death
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Guides
Chapter 4 - From Here to Eternity
Soteriological Selves and Time
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 August 2022
- Kierkegaard’s The Sickness unto Death
- Cambridge Critical Guides
- Kierkegaard’s The Sickness unto Death
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Kierkegaard’s Place of Rest
- Chapter 2 Publishing The Sickness unto Death
- Chapter 3 Kierkegaard on the Self and the Modern Debate on Selfhood
- Chapter 4 From Here to Eternity
- Chapter 5 Kierkegaard’s Metaphysics of the Self
- Chapter 6 The Experience of Possibility (and of Its Absence)
- Chapter 7 Sin, Despair, and the Self
- Chapter 8 Sin and Virtues
- Chapter 9 Despair as Sin
- Chapter 10 Fastening the End and Knotting the Thread
- Chapter 11 Despair the Disease and Faith the Therapeutic Cure
- Chapter 12 The Long Journey to Oneself
- Chapter 13 Accountability to God in The Sickness unto Death
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Guides
Summary
The Sickness unto Death presents a startlingly modern view of the self as non-substantialist, emergent, and process-driven. Instead of an immaterial soul or metaphysical essence, Kierkegaard’s self is a state of the human body and mind in “synthesis,” something human beings can become (or fail to become) through relating to themselves in a particular way. But the self is also presented in this work as an essentially eschatological being. While the self may be formed in and through its social context, Anti-Climacus returns again and again to the idea that the self is at heart the subject of an eternal judgment. This has significant implications both for what Kierkegaard takes selves – and by extension each of us – to be, and how we understand the temporality within which beings like us live.
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- Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto DeathA Critical Guide, pp. 61 - 78Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022