International Kierkegaard Commentary: The Concept of Anxiety edited by Robert L. Perkins MERCER International Kierkegaard Commentary ISBNO-86554-142-b IKC: The Concept of Anxiety Copyright © 1985 Mercer University Press, Macon, Georgia 31207 All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America All books published by Mercer University Press are produced on acid-free paper that exceeds the minimum standards established by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Main entry under title: The Concept of anxiety. (International Kierkegaard commentary; 8) Includes index. 1. Kierkegaard, Seren, 1813--1855. Begrebet angest Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Sin, original- History of doctrines-19th century-Addresses, essays, lectures. 3. Psychology, Religious-History-19th century-Addresses, essays, lectures. 4. Anxiety Religious aspects-Christianity-History-19th century Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Perkins, Robert L., 1930-- II. Title. B4376.158 1984 vol. 8 198'.9 s 85-11571 lBT720] [233' .14] ISBN 0-86554-142-6 (alk. paper) Contents Acknow led gmen ts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. vii Si g la . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. ix A Sacra tic In trod uction ............................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1 I. Kierkegaard's Systematic Analysis of Anxiety Stephen N. Dunning ..................................................... 7 II. Kierkegaard's "Anxiety" and the Augustinian Doctrine of Original Sin Le e Barre tt ..................................................................3 5 III. The Limits of the Ethical in Kierkegaard's The Concept of Anxiety and Kant's Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone Ronald M. Green ......................................................... 63 IV. Schelling and Kierkegaard on Freedom and Fall Vincent A. McCarthy ................................................... 89 V. Of Time and Eternity Louis Dupre ............................................................. 111 VI. The Socratic Knowledge of God Robert C. Roberts ...................................................... 133 · In ternational Kierkegaard Commentary VI VII. Language and Freedom: Kierkegaard's Analysis of the Demonic in The Concept of Anxiety Ronald L. Hall ........................................................... 153 VIII. The Concept of Anxiety: The Keystone of the Kierkegaard-Heidegger Relationship Dan Magurshak ......................................................... 167 Contributors ................................................................... 197 Advisory Board ................................................................ 199 Index .. .......................................................................... 201 . · Acknowledgments All the contributors to this volume would desire to make ac knowledgments, but it is a privilege reserved for the editor. Those whom the contributors would have named will be satisfied to have served their friends and colleagues. I am sure each would name persons who have the same functions as my friends and col leagues. I am appreciative of the numerous persons named in the first volume published in this series, International Kierkegaard Commen tary: Two Ages, at the University of South Alabama. However, due to a professional move, I have the privilege of thanking a number of additional persons at Stetson University: Pope A. Duncan, Pres ident; Denton R. Coker, Provost; H. Graves Edmondson, Vice President for Business and Finance; Richard E. Wright and Mary E. McBride of Data Processing. My executive secretary, Susan S. Johnson, has made getting into this deanship easier in a thousand ways and has helped me save many hours to bring the editing pro cess to a conclusion. The Advisory Board and the Volume Consultant read the vol ume, and their recommendations considerably improve it. The In ternational Advisory Board has offered valuable advice on a number of matters. Robert C. Roberts and Sylvia I. Walsh read some of the essays and made valuable suggestions for improve ments. The interest of Mercer University Press is appreciated. International Kierkegaard Commentary VllI Princeton University Press granted permission to quote from The Concept of Anxiety and other copyrighted materials. Last but hardly least, the several contributors and the editor thank their families for the lost evenings and other scattered hours. Robert L. Perkins SigZa CI The Concept of Irony, trans. Lee Capel. New York: Har per and Row, 1966; Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968. (Om Begrebet Ironi, by S. Kierkegaard, 1841.) EO Either/Or, vol. 1, trans. David F. Swenson and Lillian Marvin Swenson, vol. 2, trans. Walter Lowrie, 2d ed., rev. Howard A. Johnson. Princeton: Princeton Uni versity Press, 1971. (En ten-Eller, 1-2, ed. Victor Erem ita, 1843.) JC Johannes Climacus or De omnibus dubitandum est and A Sermon, trans. T. H. Croxall. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1958. ("Johannes Climacus eller De om nibus dubitandum est," written 1842-1843, unpubl., Pa pirer IV B 1; "Demis-PriEdiken," 1844, unpubl., Papirer .' IV C 1.) ED Edifying Discourses, 1-4, trans. David F. Swenson and Lillian Marvin Swenson. Minneapolis: Augsburg Pub lishing House, 1943-1946. (Opbyggelige Taler, by S. Kierkegaard, 1843, 1844.) FT Fear and Trembling, trans. Walter Lowrie. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968. (Frygt og BiEven, by Johannes De Silentio, 1843.) R Repetition, trans. Walter Lowrie. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1941. (Gjentagelsen, by Constantin Constantius, 1843.) x International Kierkegaard Commentary PF Philosophical Fragments, trans. David Swenson, 2d ed., rev. Howard Hong. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980. (Philosophiske Smuler, by Johannes Clima cus, ed. S. Kierkegaard, 1844.) CA The Concept of Anxiety, trans. Reidar Thomte and Al bert B. Anderson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980. (Begrebet Angest, by Vigilius Haufniensis, ed. S. Kierkegaard, 1844.) TCS Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions [Thoughts on Cru cial Situations in Human Life], trans. David F. Swenson, ed. Lillian Marvin Swenson. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1941. (Tre Taler vedtcenkte Leiligh eder, by S. Kierkegaard, 1845.) SLW Stages on Life's Way, trans. Walter Lowrie. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1940. (Stadier paa Livets Vej, ed. Hilarius Bogbinder, 1845.) CUP Concluding Unscientific Postscript, trans. David F. Swenson and Walter Lowrie. Princeton: Princeton University Press for American-Scandinavian Founda tion, 1941. (Afsluttende uvidenskabelig Efterskrift, by Jo hannes Climacus, ed. S. Kierkegaard, 1846.) TA Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age. A Literary Review, trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. (En literair Anmeldelse. To Tidsaldre, by S. Kierkegaard, 1846.) OAR On Authority and Revelation, The Book on Adler, trans. Walter Lowrie. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955. (Bogen om Adler, written 1846-1847, unpubl., Pa pirer VIP B 235; VHP B 1-27.) PH Edifying Discourses in Various Spirits. (Opbyggelige Taler i forskjellig Aand, by S. Kierkegaard, 1847.) Part One, Purity of Heart [HEn Leiligheds-Tale"] 2d ed., trans. Douglas Steere. New York: Harper, 1948. GS Part Three and Part Two, The Gospel of Suffering and The Lilies of the Field r'Lidelsernes Evangelium" and "Lilieme paa Marken og Himlens Fugle"], trans. David F. Swen son and Lillian Marvin Swenson. Minneapolis: Augs burg Publishing House, 1948.