ABSTRACT
Roberto Garaventa's study Angoscia e peccato in Søren Kierkegaard was published by Aracne Press in 2007. First of all, the author highlights that at the center of both Kierkegaard's philosophy and anthropology there is no Hegelian concept of reconciliation, but rather the concept of sin, that is, the collapse of the ethical-religious destination, and this is related to the question of the Kierkegaardian becoming oneself this concept denotes a modus vivendi. Secondly, Garaventa remarks that The Concept of Anxiety presents a fundamental and unprecedented contribution to the topic of sin, because in his point of view sin is linked with freedom and anxiety: when the single individual must choose either the finite or the infinite, he prefers to hold onto the finite. Garaventa does not provide us with answers but with a fascinating and suggestive hermeneutical horizon, and he paves the way for further investigations into the complex relation between sin and anxiety in Kierkegaard's work.
