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This edition replaces the earlier translation by Walter Lowrie that appeared under the title The Concept of Dread. Along with The Sickness unto Death, the work reflects from a psychological point of view Søren Kierkegaard's longstanding concern with the Socratic maxim, "Know yourself." His ontological view of the self as a synthesis of body, soul, and spirit has influenced philosophers such as Heidegger and Sartre, theologians such as Jaspers and Tillich, and psychologists such as Rollo May. In The Concept of Anxiety, Kierkegaard describes the nature and forms of anxiety, placing the domain of anxiety within the mental-emotional states of human existence that precede the qualitative leap of faith to the spiritual state of Christianity. It is through anxiety that the self becomes aware of its dialectical relation between the finite and the infinite, the temporal and the eternal.… (more)
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This is another I'm not sorry I read because now I can say I've read Kierkegaard, but what a slog. I've made several attempts to read philosophy and I just cannot do it. I don't know why I keep
I did make a lot of notes whilst reading The Concept of Anxiety, and Kierkegaard's concept of anxiety seems to boil down to "Anxiety is freedom's possibilities ..." When we turn around and face our anxiety, we see it's based on the numerous possibilities we have in front of us. Anxiety requires absolute honesty and integrity in order to educate us as we face ourselves.
Of course Kierkegaard uses a lot more words than I do.