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
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}