The Concept of Anxiety
All of Kierkegaard's books have either a preface, dedication, or prayer at the beginning. This book includes a lengthy introduction. "The Concept of Anxiety" was published on exactly the same date as "Prefaces", June 17, 1844. Both books deal with Hegel’s idea of mediation. Mediation is a common thread throughout Kierkegaard’s works. His work up to this point was to show that faith was being mediated by knowledge. Here he takes up the questions of sin and guilt.
Anne Conway (philosopher)
The text itself was probably written in 1677 and shows the influence of Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont.
The text was first published in Latin translation by van Helmont in Amsterdam in 1690 as "Principia philosophiae antiquissimae et recentissimae". An English edition appeared in 1692. The "Principles" develops Conway's monistic view of the world as created from one substance. Conway is critical of the Cartesian idea that bodies are constituted of dead matter, of Henry More's concept of the soul in his "Antidote Against Atheism," and of dualist theories of the relationship between the body and spirit.