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The Sickness Unto Death

Søren Kierkegaard

Form
Form Philosophy
Year
Year 1849
Originally in
Originally in Danish
Pages
Pages 100

A philosopher anatomises despair as the sickness of a self that will not be itself, mapping every variety from the unconscious to the defiant, with faith as the only cure.

The self is a relation that relates itself to itself.
The Sickness Unto Death, Søren Kierkegaard

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