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Fear and Trembling (original Danish title: Frygt og Bæven) is a philosophical work by Søren Kierkegaard, published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio ( Latin for John of the Silence ). The title is a reference to a line from Philippians 2:12, which says to "continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling."
- Søren Kierkegaard
- ~200
- 1843
- October 16, 1843
Full Work Summary. Writing under the pseudonym of “Johannes de Silentio,” Kierkegaard opens Fear and Trembling with the story from the Bible, Genesis 22:1-18, of Abraham's willingness to sacrifice Isaac. For this deed, Abraham is normally acknowledged as the father of faith, but in this day and age, Johannes remarks, no one is content with ...
Fear and Trembling. by Søren Kierkegaard. “Generally people are of the opinion that what faith produces is not a work of art, that it is coarse and common work, only for the more clumsy natures; but in fact this is far from the truth. The dialectic of faith is the finest and most remarkable of all; it possesses an elevation, of which indeed ...
Fear and Trembling is a philosophical work by Søren Kierkegaard, published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de Silentio (John of the Silence). Kierkegaard wanted to understand the anxiety that must have been present in Abraham when "God tested [him] and said to him, take Isaac, your only son, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah and ...
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- 1843
- Søren Kierkegaard
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A summary of Fear and Trembling in Søren Kierkegaard's Selected Works of Søren Kierkegaard. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Selected Works of Søren Kierkegaard and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
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Fear and Trembling,written when theauthor wasonlythirty yearsold, is in all likelihood Søren Kierkegaard’s most-read book. This would not have surprised Kierkegaard, who wrote prophetically in his journal that ‘‘once I am dead, Fear and Trembling alone will be enough for an imperishable name as an author. Then it will [be] read ...
Kierkegaard’s Thought (2000) and the Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kierkegaard and Fear and Trembling (2003; second edition under contract). He is editor of Nietzsche’s Futures (1999) and co-editor of Nietzsche and the Divine (with Jim Urpeth, 2000), The Oxford Hand-book of Kierkegaard (with George Pattison, 2013), and Narrative, Identity
