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Books like The Sickness Unto Death
The Sickness Unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard is about despair, the self, faith. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Fear and Trembling
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Søren Kierkegaard · Philosophy
Fear and Trembling was published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de Silentio, and it is Kierkegaard's most sustained meditation on the nature of faith through the lens of the story of Abraham and Isaac.
Read the summary → - The Courage to Be
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Paul Tillich · Philosophy
The Courage to Be originated as the Terry Lectures at Yale in 1950 and was published in 1952.
Read the summary → - Being and Nothingness
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Jean-Paul Sartre · Philosophy
Being and Nothingness is Sartre's major philosophical treatise and the founding text of French existentialism.
Read the summary → - Man's Search for Meaning
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Viktor E. Frankl · Psychology
Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's account of his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and the psychological theory he developed from that experience.
Read the summary → - 1984
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George Orwell · Philosophy
Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's 1949 novel about a future England called Airstrip One, governed by the totalitarian Party under the figurehead Big Brother.
Read the summary → - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari · Philosophy
Where Sapiens traced humanity's past and Homo Deus speculated about its future, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century plants itself in the present.
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