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    Don't Despair: Letters to a Modern Man
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    Don't Despair: Letters to a Modern Man

    By Matias Dalsgaard

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    Don’t Despair is a moving epistolary novel about urban modern living.
    It recounts the story of a successful young overachiever, whose world collapses after his wife and child abandon him. The book consists of existential letters written from a Lutheran priest to his nephew. The letters include philosophical and theological reflections on why he believes life goes wrong for his nephew, and what it would take to get over this life crisis.
    In his book, Dalsgaard shows how Christianity at a psychological and existential level has a helpful message to the modern man. The book is a Lutheran-Kierkegaardian perspective on life, criticizing the modern perspective of being self-centered and ultimately despaired. The book, however, is not only a critique of a modern lifestyle and self-perception; it is a revelatory and helpful text. Don’t Despair is written with the intention to help the modern person overcome despair, and find renewed joy and courage to exist.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPine Tribe Ltd.
    Release dateAug 11, 2014
    ISBN9780991260959
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    Don't Despair: Letters to a Modern Man
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    Matias Dalsgaard

    Matias Dalsgaard has a background in comparative literature and a PhD and postdoctoral degree in philosophy. Having worked as an associate at the consulting company McKinsey & Company, he is the founder and CEO of a successful Danish start-up company GoMore, which focuses on online car-sharing concepts. Dalsgaard has always been drawn towards philosophy and theology, as well as the church and the arts. In particular, he enjoys studying the great thinkers, preachers and psychologists of Christianity including Paulus, Augustine, Luther, and Kierkegaard. He has previously published philosophical articles as well as poetry.Dalsgaard’s first novel Don’t Despair represents two sides of his life that might never be fully reconciled: the side of Christian-existential seriousness and that of business, consumption and infinite earthly ambitions.

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