{"id":2858,"date":"2023-06-10T13:34:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T17:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/kierkegaard-on-the-value-of-despair-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-06-10T13:34:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T17:34:37","slug":"kierkegaard-on-the-value-of-despair-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/kierkegaard-on-the-value-of-despair-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Kierkegaard on the Value of Despair \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Kierkegaard<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no love of life without despair of life,\u201d Albert Camus wrote as he reckoned with the rudiments of happiness<\/a>. \u201cWe hope. We despair. We hope. We despair. This is what governs us,\u201d artist Maira Kalman observed in her illustrated chronicle of the pursuit of happiness<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To accept that there can be no happiness without despair is to recognize that, rather than a malady of the spirit, despair is the rudder course-correcting the ship of the self, steering it from the actual to the ideal. <\/p>\n

That is what S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard<\/a> (May 5, 1813\u2013November 11, 1855) explores in his characteristically grimly titled and characteristically deeply insightful 1849 book The Sickness Unto Death<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>), so radical in some of its ideas that he published it under a pseudonym. <\/p>\n

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