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The Sickness unto Death ( Danish: Sygdommen til Døden) is a book written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1849 under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus. A work of Christian existentialism, the book is about Kierkegaard's concept of despair, which he equates with the Christian concept of sin, which he terms "the sin of despair".
- Søren Kierkegaard, Walter Lowrie
- 1849
Learn about Kierkegaard's views on religious faith and his pseudonymous work published in 1849. Find summaries, analysis, and questions and answers on The Sickness Unto Death and other works by Kierkegaard.
Learn about Kierkegaard's concept of despair as a spiritual sickness and the Christian solution of faith. Explore the forms, causes, and consequences of despair and sin in this philosophical work.
A PDF document of Sören Kierkegaard's book The Sickness Unto Death, published by Princeton University Press in 1941. The book explores the Christian concept of despair as the greatest spiritual sickness and the cure of faith.
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A classic book by Sören Kierkegaard, a nineteenth century theologian who explored the concept of despair and its relation to faith. He argued that despair is the greatest spiritual sickness and the cure is to die to despair by relating to God.
Jul 10, 2024 · The Sickness unto Death (1849) is commonly regarded as one of Kierkegaard's most important works – but also as one of his most difficult texts to understand. It is a meditation on Christian existentialist themes including sin, despair, religious faith and its redemptive power, and the relation and difference between physical and spiritual death.
The title The Sickness Unto Death comes the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead in the Gospel of John. When Jesus raised Lazarus, he said “this sickness is not unto death.”
