the concept of dread
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~76,400 words · 363 passages
Cite this work
- APASøren Kierkegaard. (n.d.). the concept of dread. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/kierkegaard/the-concept-of-dread
- MLASøren Kierkegaard. "the concept of dread." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/kierkegaard/the-concept-of-dread.
- ChicagoSøren Kierkegaard. the concept of dread. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/kierkegaard/the-concept-of-dread.
What it is about
Anxiety examined as a concept: what exactly this fear without an object is, and what it has to do with original sin.
Context and history
Published in 1844 under the pseudonym Vigilius Haufniensis. The definition people quote is that anxiety is the dizziness of freedom: you do not fear some particular thing, you fear that you could do anything at all. The book passes for psychology and at moments is, but it is written against Hegel and against the idea that sin can be explained inside a system — hence its insistence that sin always arrives by a leap, never by a deduction.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
SOCRATES* INTIMATE FRIEND, THE INTERPRETER OF ARISTOTLE — Denmark's joy in "joy over Denmark," ALTHOUGH A "FAR-TRAVELED MAN," YET ALWAYS "REMEMBERED IN THE DANISH SUMMER" MY ADMIRATION, MY DEEP-FELT LOSS, THIS WORK IS DEDICATED The age of distinctions is past and gone, the System has overcome it. He who in our age loves distinctions is an eccentric man whose soul clings to that which has long vanished. That may be so, and yet Socrates remains what he was, the simple wise man with the curious distinction which he himself expressed by word and by his life, which after full two thousand years the eccentric Hamann reiterated, exclaiming with admiration, "Socrates was great for the fact that he 'distinguished between what he understood and what he did not understand.' " TO THE LATE Professor Poul Martin MOller THE HAPPY LOVER OF HELLENIC CULTURE, HOMER'S ADMIRER, SOCRATES' INTIMATE FRIEND, THE INTERPRETER OF ARISTOTLE — Denmark's joy in "joy over Denmark," ALTHOUGH A "FAR-TRAVELED MAN," YET ALWAYS "REMEMBERED IN THE DANISH
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