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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. (shrink)

Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhalt -- 1 Antike Melancholie -- 2 Die Acedia des Mittelalters -- 3 Moderne Metamorphosen -- Anmerkungen.

El presente ensayo está compuesto de manera tal, que presenta un interesante bosquejo del pensamiento existencial kierkegaardiano. Ello desde varios flancos que componen entre sí una excelente introducción al desarrollo intelectual de Kierkegaard; a saber, la singular influencia de su vida en su pensamiento que caracteriza la relación que el pensador tiene con el mundo y consigo mismo; la posición de la filosofía de Kierkegaard que está determinada profundamente por su relación con sus antecesores inmediatos; los lineamientos de su obra (...) literaria, y finalmente la decisiva relación que atraviesa su obra entre pensar-creer y filosofía- teología. (shrink)

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The early Greek understanding of time is characterized by the fact that it develops various concepts of different forms of time but it is itself not exhausted by the total sum of its own concepts. Homer already employs a differentiated concept of time, depending on whether he speaks of chronos, émar or aión. From Hesiod comes the earliest literary record of the concept kairós. Even richer than substantivized time is time in its epic form, unfolding three-dimensionally, historically. That is why (...) an adequate understanding of the early Greek conception of time can only be reached through literature. Pre-socratic philosophy is embedded in a context which includes lyric poetry and tragedy as well as Homer and Hesiod. Predominant here is Pindar, whose work supplied Plato with key words and who resolved the traditional concepts of time in the movement of his fundamental idea. (shrink)