The Sickness Unto Death

Name: The Sickness Unto Death
Author: Søren Kierkegaard

by Søren Kierkegaard

Analysis of despair as spiritual sickness and loss of authentic selfhood

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Søren Kierkegaard

The father of existentialism, Kierkegaard attacked Hegel's system and the established Danish church with passionate irony and indirect communication. Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, and The Sickness Unto Death explore the leap of faith, anxiety, and authentic selfhood. He wrote many works under pseudonyms representing different stages of existence.

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Concluding Unscientific PostscriptMajor work reconciling philosophical objectivity with religious subjectivity
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