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The Sickness Unto Death

A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification and Awakening by Anti-Climacus

Author: Soren Kierkegaard and Alastair Hannay   Series: Penguin Classics

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Explores the concept of 'despair', alerting readers to the diversity of ways in which they may be described as living in this state of bleak abandonment and offering a much-discussed formula for the eradication of despair. This book is famed for the depth and acuity of its modern psychological insights.

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Explores the concept of 'despair', alerting readers to the diversity of ways in which they may be described as living in this state of bleak abandonment and offering a much-discussed formula for the eradication of despair. This book is famed for the depth and acuity of its modern psychological insights.

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One of the key works of existentialist thoughtOne of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, The Sickness Unto Death is also famed for the depth and acuity of its modern psychological insights. Writing under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, Kierkegaard explores the concept of 'despair', alerting readers to the diversity of ways in which they may be described as living in this state of bleak abandonment - including some that may seem just the opposite - and offering a much-discussed formula for the eradication of despair. With its penetrating account of the self, this late work by Kierkegaard was hugely influential upon twentieth-century philosophers including Karl Jaspers, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. The Sickness unto Death can be regarded as one of the key works of theistic existentialist thought - a brilliant and revelatory answer to one man's struggle to fill the spiritual void.

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About the Author

Kierkegaard (1813-55) was born in Copenhagen, the youngest of seven children. His childhood was unhappy, clouded by the religious fervour of his father, and the death of his mother, his sisters and two brothers. Educated at the School of Civic Virtue, he went on study theology, liberal arts and science at university, gaining a reputation for his academic brilliance and extravagant social life. He began to criticize Christianity, and in 1841 broke off his engagement to concentrate on his writing. Over the next ten years he produced a flood of works, in particular twelve major philosophical essays, many written under noms de plume. By the end of his life he had become an object of public ridicule, but he is now enjoying increasing acclaim.Alastair Hannay was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, the University of Edinburgh and University College London. In 1961 he became a resident of Norway and is now Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo.

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Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd | Penguin Classics
Published
30th March 1989
Edition
1st
Pages
208
ISBN
9780140445336

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