About the Book: Sickness Unto Death
One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, The
Sickness Unto Death is also famed for the depth and acuity of its modern
psychological insights. Writing under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, Kierkegaard
explores the concept of despair, alerting readers to the diversity of ways in
which they may be described as living in this state of bleak
abandonment-including some that may seem just the opposite-and offering a
much-discussed formula for the eradication of despair. With its penetrating
account of the self, this late work by Kierkegaard was hugely influential upon
twentieth-century philosophers including Karl Jaspers, Jean-Paul Sartre and
Albert