A review by jedwards97
The Sickness unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard

challenging dark informative slow-paced

3.0

The Sickness unto Death is the philosophy of despair. It delves into the idea of the self, the psychological dispositions one faces consciously or unconsciously and the various ways each disposition may affect the self and create the feeling of despair. The work is split into multiple sections and the first few were enlightening, yet i found the last few which focused almost solely on Christianity and sin to be tedious and uninteresting. The writing was almost incompressible at some points, and there’s bits of Latin thrown in with no translations which makes this a very difficult read. All in all it gets you into an introspective headspace about your own ‘self’, you could learn a lot about yourself if you manage to find the meaning in a convoluted analysis on the despair of humanity.