Kierkegaard's Fear and trembling : a critical guide /

"Written by an international team of contributors, this book offers a fresh set of interpretations of Fear and Trembling, which remains Kierkegaard's most influential and popular book. The essays provide incisive accounts of the psychological and epistemological presuppositions of Fear...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Conway, Daniel W. (Editor)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: United Kingdom : Cambridge University, 2015.
Subjects:
Christianity -- Philosophy. > Sin -- Christianity. Criticism. > PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern. > Frygt og bæven (Kierkegaard, Søren) > Kierkegaard, Søren -- 1813-1855 -- Frygt og bæven
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Daniel Conway
  • 1. Homing in on Fear and Trembling / Alastair Hannay
  • 2. Fear and Trembling's 'attunement' as midrash Jacob Howland ; 3. Johannes de Silentio's dilemma / Claire Carlisle
  • 4. Can an admirer of silentio's Abraham consistently believe that child sacrifice is forbidden? / C. Stephen Evans
  • 5. Eschatological faith and repetition: Kierkegaard's Abraham and Job / John Davenport
  • 6. The existential dimension of faith / Sharon Krishek
  • 7. Learning to hope: the role of hope in Fear and Trembling / John Lippitt
  • 8. On being moved and hearing voices: passion and religious experience in Fear and Trembling / Rick Anthony Furtak
  • 9. Birth, love, and hybridity: Fear and Trembling and the Symposium / Edward F. Mooney and Dana Lloyd
  • 10. Narrative unity and the moment of crisis in Fear and Trembling / Anthony Rudd
  • 11. Particularity and ethical attunement: situating Problema III / Daniel Conway
  • 12. 'He speaks in tongues': hearing the truth of Abraham's words of faith / Jeffrey Hanson
  • 13. Why Moriah? weaning and the trauma of transcendence in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling / Vanessa Rumble.

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