Its opening passage announces that "man is not yet a self," but rather a disunity, torn apart by a c
Its opening passage announces that "man is not yet a self," but rather a disunity, torn apart by a corruption that the Church calls Sin and the author calls Despair. Its title refers to the work's central analogy, which compares the despairing man to a suffering invalid who wishes to die but can't. FTP, name this philosophical study of melancholy, written in 1849 by Soren Kierkegaard.
Its opening passage announces that "man is not yet a self," but rather a disunity, torn apart by a corruption that the Church calls Sin and the author calls Despair.
{Sickness Unto Death}