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Kierkegaard's Concept of Despair

Kierkegaard's Concept of Despair 166 Book Reviews / Journal of Moral Philosophy 5 (2008) 151–170 Michael Th eunissen, Kierkegaard’s Concept of Despair , trans. Barbara Harshav and Helmut Illbruck (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005), 166 pp. ISBN 0691095582 (hbk). Hardback/Paperback: £22.95/–. Th is is a very welcome translation of a work of a much-needed sort: a detailed critical analysis of Kierkegaard’s substantial philosophical contributions—in this case, his bold and original account of what it is to be in despair. First published in 1993, Th eunissen’s book contains two, relatively free-standing studies of Kierkegaard’s major work on this theme, Th e Sickness unto Death . Th e fi rst aims to develop an ‘immanent critique’ of this text by locating its most basic theoretical commitments, considering how far it remains true to these principles, and correcting it where it does not. By contrast, the lengthier second study off ers a ‘transcend- ing critique’—where this involves a detailed examination of various points in the text deemed to reveal certain basic fl aws in Kierkegaard’s overall scheme. Th eunissen remarks at some length on his own methodological procedures, and although these remarks are often programmatic and sometimes obscure (darkly alluding, for example, to something called http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Moral Philosophy Brill

Kierkegaard's Concept of Despair

Journal of Moral Philosophy , Volume 5 (1): 166 – Jan 1, 2008

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Brill
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© 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1740-4681
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1745-5243
DOI
10.1163/174552408X306780
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166 Book Reviews / Journal of Moral Philosophy 5 (2008) 151–170 Michael Th eunissen, Kierkegaard’s Concept of Despair , trans. Barbara Harshav and Helmut Illbruck (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005), 166 pp. ISBN 0691095582 (hbk). Hardback/Paperback: £22.95/–. Th is is a very welcome translation of a work of a much-needed sort: a detailed critical analysis of Kierkegaard’s substantial philosophical contributions—in this case, his bold and original account of what it is to be in despair. First published in 1993, Th eunissen’s book contains two, relatively free-standing studies of Kierkegaard’s major work on this theme, Th e Sickness unto Death . Th e fi rst aims to develop an ‘immanent critique’ of this text by locating its most basic theoretical commitments, considering how far it remains true to these principles, and correcting it where it does not. By contrast, the lengthier second study off ers a ‘transcend- ing critique’—where this involves a detailed examination of various points in the text deemed to reveal certain basic fl aws in Kierkegaard’s overall scheme. Th eunissen remarks at some length on his own methodological procedures, and although these remarks are often programmatic and sometimes obscure (darkly alluding, for example, to something called

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Published: Jan 1, 2008

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