Sickness unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification & Awakening by Anti-Cli (Penguin Classics)
by Søren Kierkegaard
published
August 1st 1989
(first published 1983)
by Penguin Classics
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Paperback, 192 pages
isbn
0140445331
(isbn13: 9780140445336)
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Read in January, 2002
I had taken a picture of an old man on the lookout area of the Pompiduo in Paris. He was facing the city and was hunched forward in a way that showed his age. It was a shot composed mostly of luck and good timing. I instantly thought of Keiregaard and used the photo for a creative project based on this book. When I was leaving the museum, there was a girl trying to speak to me in French. I nodded in a way i had seen my students in Prague do many times before. It was a look I would receive a...more
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Read in February, 2006
Kierkegaard provides an illuminating look at ways varieties of seemingly non-functional lifestyles. It is perplexing when one arrives at the later lifestyles of misrelations to God, when it seems that there are atheist/agnostic lifestyles that don't fall into any of his categories. Or at least so I think.
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Read in February, 2008
Uncannily, I picked this up before buying The Moviegoer (which is basically a story in which the main character directly discusses and interacts with Kierkegaard's points). It turned out to be enlightening to read both books at the same time. This certainly isn't the most popular of the depressed Dane's works, nor the most accessible. The first half of the book is a rather dry and absurdly repetitive taxonomy of the different forms of "despair." Even I had trouble getting through it, a...more
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Read in January, 1985
recommends it for:
anyone who feels the need to be less happy than they currently are
Soren Kierkegaard, the quintessential Depressed Dane, spent all of his free time pining for/stalking some poor woman who absolutely despised him. To cheer himself up, he wrote ponderous philosophical tomes like this one. To be fair, some of Kierkegaard's works are actually funny, if you happen to have a philosophy professor standing over your shoulder while you're reading to help you get the joke. This isn't one of his thigh-slappers. Basically, Kierkegaard writes about "man's" utt...more
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Heavy, of course, like swimming through molasses at times, but still good. Worth the stickiness if you're in the mood for some Christian philosophy.
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Kierkegaard is my all-time favorite philosopher, and this is my second-favorite book of his...it's a masterful examination of the human condition of despair that will really resonate with those who have struggled with depression.
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Read in March, 2008
"The human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates to itself, or that in the relation which is its relating to itself. The self is not the relation but the relation's relating to itself. A human being is a synthesis of the infiinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity. In short a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two terms. Looked at in this way a human being ...more
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A self is a self that relates to itself -- says Barnacle Bill the Sailor.
No wonder Sweden hated Denmark until recently.
The quintessential 'brooding Dane' makes Hamlet seem like Milton Berle.
He makes Aristotle and Plato seem relevant in comparison.
Not recommended for anyone who has something constructive to do or works with sharp objects.
No wonder Sweden hated Denmark until recently.
The quintessential 'brooding Dane' makes Hamlet seem like Milton Berle.
He makes Aristotle and Plato seem relevant in comparison.
Not recommended for anyone who has something constructive to do or works with sharp objects.
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So far the book has been incredibly dense with christian philosophy. Enjoying the personal interpretation of reading this book. Already one of my favorite books and can't wait to find another Kierkegaard classic.
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This book is basically Kierkegaards views on the topics of sin and anthropology. though I have some slight disagreements with him concerning these topics I found this book to be a great resource for looking more into these issues. Excellent read.
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Hard to read. I actually loved the preface/introduction and was so excited to read the actual book. The preface/intro was so inspiring. The text is very academic and so hard to follow. So 4 stars for concept.
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One of the hardest books I've ever read, I'm still pretty sure I do not get it. This is the Christian precursor to existentialism, somewhat of required reading before you jump into Sartre.
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