Despair as Defiance: Kierkegaard’s Definitions in “The Sickness unto Death”

How are we to read and how translate the brief formulae with which ‟The Sickness unto Death” introduces two forms of ‛authentic despair’? In response to Michael Theunissen’s claim that, to conform with the actual drift of Kierkegaard’s thought, the first of the two forms of despair should be given p...

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Main Author: Hannay Alastair
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2018-05-01
Series:Open Philosophy
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opphil-2018-0004