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The Sickness unto Death

Name: The Sickness unto Death
Author: Sören Kierkegaard

Sören KierkegaardOriginal title Sygdommen til Døden (Danish, 1849)

The Sickness Unto Death 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." Walter Lowrie said The Sickness unto Death is a repetition of Fear and Trembling and that the book is even more closely related to The Concept of Anxiety. Kierkegaard used two pseudonyms for opposite purposes. Johannes Climacus says he's not a Christian whereas Anti-Climacus says he's extraordinary Christian.

“Surrounded by hordes of people, busy with all sorts of secular matters, more and more shrewd about the ways of the world - such a person forgets himself, forgets his name divinely understood, does not dare to believe in himself, finds it too risky to be himself, far easier and safer to be like the others, to become a copy, a number, part of the crowd.”

Sören Kierkegaard book The Sickness unto Death

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