The Concept of Anxiety

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The Concept of Anxiety is a philosophical work by Søren Kierkegaard that explores the nature of anxiety as a fundamental aspect of human freedom, sin, and existential choice.

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instanceOf book
philosophical work
addresses concept of hereditary sin in Christian doctrine
relationship between freedom and necessity
relationship between psychology and dogmatics
author Søren Kierkegaard
centralConcept anxiety as related to the possibility of sin
anxiety as the dizziness of freedom
hereditary sin
qualitative leap
transition from innocence to guilt
countryOfOrigin Denmark
distinguishes anxiety from fear
focusesOn Christian understanding of sin
individual subjectivity
pre-sin state of innocence
genre Christian philosophy
existential philosophy
psychological treatise
influenced 20th-century existentialism
Jean-Paul Sartre
Karl Jaspers
Martin Heidegger
Paul Tillich
Rollo May
existential psychology
language Danish
mainTheme anxiety
existential choice
freedom
guilt
original sin
possibility
sin
originalTitle Begrebet Angest
philosophicalCategory moral psychology
philosophical anthropology
philosophy of religion
philosophicalTradition Christian existentialism
existentialism
pseudonymousAuthor Vigilius Haufniensis
publicationYear 1844
publishedInCentury 19th century
publisher C.A. Reitzel
relatedWorkByAuthor Either/Or
Fear and Trembling
The Sickness Unto Death
religiousContext Lutheranism
surface form: Lutheran Christianity
viewsAnxietyAs ambiguous, both destructive and educative
condition of possibility for freedom

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Søren Kierkegaard notableWork The Concept of Anxiety
Fear and Trembling relatedWorkByAuthor The Concept of Anxiety
Either/Or relatedWork The Concept of Anxiety
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The Sickness Unto Death relatedWorkByAuthor The Concept of Anxiety
Vigilius Haufniensis notableWork The Concept of Anxiety
Vigilius Haufniensis appearsInWork The Concept of Anxiety
Vigilius Haufniensis workPublicationTitle The Concept of Anxiety
this entity surface form: The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin