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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".
[13] Kierkegaard stressed the importance of becoming the single individual in relation to Christ. John Gates said, Kierkegaard “symbolically’ returned to the church in 1838 when he took the Lord's Supper as a “solitary penitent’ and in his last period of authorship ten of his fifty-two published discourses had to do with Communion. [14]
The Unscientific Postscript is but one more voluminous commentary on the main theme of all Kierkegaard’s work, the dilemma which he represented by the phrase “either-or”: either aesthetic immediacy, which includes not only the eudaemonistic search for pleasure, but also despair (the “sickness unto death”) and religious or metaphysical ...
Practice in Christianity (also Training in Christianity) is a work by 19th-century theologian Søren Kierkegaard. It was published on September 27, 1850, under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, the author of The Sickness unto Death. Kierkegaard considered it to be his "most perfect and truest book".
Most emphatically in The Sickness Unto Death, Kierkegaard's author argues that the human self is a composition of various aspects that must be brought into conscious balance: the finite, the infinite, a consciousness of the "relationship of the two to itself," and a consciousness of "the power that posited" the self. The finite (limitations ...
Howard V. Hong said Kierkegaard had “seeds for more than six discourses in mind". [12] John Gates scarcely mentioned the Imagined Discourses in his book on the life of Kierkegaard, but he did describe it as a turning point in the development of his vocation and an insight into his manner of writing. [13]
Kierkegaard calls sickness, the sickness of the spirit. He wrote the following in Concluding Unscientific Postscript in 1846. We left the religious person in the crisis of sickness; but this sickness is not unto death. [13] We shall now let him be strengthened by the very same conception that destroyed him, by the conception of God.
Søren Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers: A Selection, ISBN 0-14-044589-7. Søren Kierkegaard, A Literary Review, Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-044801-2. Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death, Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-044533-1. Søren Kierkegaard, "Concluding Unscientific Postscript", Cambridge UP, ISBN 978-0-521-88247-7.