Existential Despair in Kierkegaard

Philosophy and Theology 6 (2):167-174 (1991)
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This paper is a study of Kierkegaard’s concept of despair. The Danish etymology of fortvivleslse is examined in order to argue that, for Kierkegaard, despair is not simply a feeling, but is more fundamentally a willed misrelation in the self.

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