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Kierkegaard and the Life of Faith

Jeffrey Hanson
Kierkegaard and the Life of Faith Book PDF

Author : Jeffrey Hanson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253025029

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“A thorough, considered, and provocative treatment of what justifiably remains Kierkegaard’s most famous book.” —Marginalia Review of Books Soren Kierkegaard’s masterful work Fear and Trembling interrogates the story of Abraham and Isaac, finding there one of the most profound and critical dilemmas in all of religious philosophy. While several commentaries and critical editions exist, Jeffrey Hanson offers a distinctive approach to this crucial text. Hanson gives equal weight to all three of Kierkegaard’s “problems,” dealing with Fear and Trembling as part of the entire corpus of Kierkegaard’s thought and putting all parts into relation with each other. Additionally, he offers a distinctive analysis of the Abraham story and other biblical texts, giving particular attention to questions of poetics, language, and philosophy, especially as each relates to the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious. Presented in a thoughtful and fresh manner, Hanson’s claims are original and edifying. This new reading of Kierkegaard will stimulate fruitful dialogue on well-traveled philosophical ground.

Fear and Trembling

Soren Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling Book PDF

Author : Soren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781625584021

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Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard Pdf

In our time nobody is content to stop with faith but wants to go further. It would perhaps be rash to ask where these people are going, but it is surely a sign of breeding and culture for me to assume that everybody has faith, for otherwise it would be queer for them to be . . . going further. In those old days it was different, then faith was a task for a whole lifetime, because it was assumed that dexterity in faith is not acquired in a few days or weeks. When the tried oldster drew near to his last hour, having fought the good fight and kept the faith, his heart was still young enough not to have forgotten that fear and trembling which chastened the youth, which the man indeed held in check, but which no man quite outgrows. . . except as he might succeed at the earliest opportunity in going further. Where these revered figures arrived, that is the point where everybody in our day begins to go further.

An Analysis of Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling

Brittany Pheiffer Noble
An Analysis of Soren Kierkegaard s Fear and Trembling Book PDF

Author : Brittany Pheiffer Noble
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351350457

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An Analysis of Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling by Brittany Pheiffer Noble Pdf

Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard’s 1843 book Fear and Trembling shows precisely why he is regarded as one of the most significant and creative philosophers of the nineteenth century. Creative thinkers can be many things, but one of their common attributes is an ability to redefine, reframe and reconsider problems from novel angles. In Kierkegaard’s case, he chose to approach the problems of faith and ethics in a deliberately artful and non-systematic way. Writing under the pseudonym “John the Silent,” he declared that he was “nothing of a philosopher,” but an “amateur,” wanting to write poetically and elegantly about the things that fascinated him. While Fear and Trembling is very much the work of a philosopher, Kierkegaard’s protests showed his intent to take a different path, approaching his topic like no one else before him. The book goes on to ask what the real nature of our personal relationship with God might be, and how faith might interact with ethics. What, Kierkegaard asks, can we make of God asking Abraham to sacrifice his only son, and of Abraham obeying? Arguing the unorthodox position that in following God’s incomprehensible will Abraham had acted ethically, Kierkegaard set out the parameters of a moral argument that remains strikingly novel over a 150 years later.

Fear and Trembling: A New Translation

Søren Kierkegaard
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Author : Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781631498329

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Fear and Trembling: A New Translation by Søren Kierkegaard Pdf

This newly translated Fear and Trembling, a foundational document of modern philosophy and existentialism, could not be more apt for our perilous times. First published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio (“John of Silence”), Soren Kierkegaard’s richly resonant Fear and Trembling has for generations stood as a pivotal text in the history of moral philosophy, inspiring such artistic and philosophical luminaries as Edvard Munch, W. H. Auden, Walter Benjamin, and existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre. Now, in our era of immense uncertainty, renowned Kierkegaard scholar Bruce H. Kirmmse eloquently brings this classic work to a new generation of readers. Retelling the biblical story of the binding of Isaac, Fear and Trembling expounds on the ordeal of Abraham, who was commanded by God to sacrifice his own son in an exceptional test of faith. Disgusted at the self-certainty of his own age, Kierkegaard investigates the paradox underlying Abraham’s decision to allow his duty to God to take precedence over his duties to his family. As Kierkegaard’s narrator explains, the story presents a difficulty that is not often considered—namely, that after the ordeal is over and Isaac has been spared at the last moment, Abraham is capable of receiving him again and living normally, even joyfully, for the rest of his days. Almost inexplicably, “Abraham had faith and did not doubt.” Deftly tracing the autobiographical threads that run throughout the work, Kirmmse initially, in his lucid and engaging introduction, demystifies Kierkegaard’s fictive narrator, Johannes de silentio, drawing parallels between Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son and the author’s personal “sacrifices.” Ultimately, however, Kirmmse reveals Fear and Trembling as a fiercely polemical volume, designed to provoke the reader into considering what is actually meant by the word “faith,” and whether those who consider themselves “true believers” actually are. With a vibrancy almost never before seen in English, and “a matchless grasp of the intricacies of Kierkegaard’s writing process” (Gordon Marino), Kirmmse here definitively demonstrates Kierkegaard’s enduring power to illuminate the terrible wonder of faith.

Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling

Daniel Conway
Kierkegaard s Fear and Trembling Book PDF

Author : Daniel Conway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107034617

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Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling by Daniel Conway Pdf

Featuring new, original essays on Fear and Trembling, this collection casts new interpretive light on Kierkegaard's most influential work.

Fear and Trembling

Soren Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling Book PDF

Author : Soren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1985-08-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141906232

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Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard Pdf

Writing under the pseudonym of Johannes de silentio, Kierkegaard uses the form of a dialectical lyric to present his conception of faith. Abraham is portrayed as a great man, who chose to sacrifice his son, Isaac, in the face of conflicting expectations and in defiance of any conceivable ethical standard. The infamous and controversial 'teleological suspension of the ethical' challenged the contemporary views of Hegel's universal moral system, and the suffering individual must alone make a choice 'on the strength of the absurd'. Kierkegaard's writings have inspired both modern Protestant theology and existentialism.

Kierkegaard's Writings, VII, Volume 7

Søren Kierkegaard
Kierkegaard s Writings VII Volume 7 Book PDF

Author : Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400846962

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Kierkegaard's Writings, VII, Volume 7 by Søren Kierkegaard Pdf

This volume contains a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, of two works written under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus. Through Climacus, Kierkegaard contrasts the paradoxes of Christianity with Greek and modern philosophical thinking. In Philosophical Fragments he begins with Greek Platonic philosophy, exploring the implications of venturing beyond the Socratic understanding of truth acquired through recollection to the Christian experience of acquiring truth through grace. Published in 1844 and not originally planned to appear under the pseudonym Climacus, the book varies in tone and substance from the other works so attributed, but it is dialectically related to them, as well as to the other pseudonymous writings. The central issue of Johannes Climacus is doubt. Probably written between November 1842 and April 1843 but unfinished and published only posthumously, this book was described by Kierkegaard as an attack on modern speculative philosophy by "means of the melancholy irony, which did not consist in any single utterance on the part of Johannes Climacus but in his whole life. . . . Johannes does what we are told to do--he actually doubts everything--he suffers through all the pain of doing that, becomes cunning, almost acquires a bad conscience. When he has gone as far in that direction as he can go and wants to come back, he cannot do so. . . . Now he despairs, his life is wasted, his youth is spent in these deliberations. Life does not acquire any meaning for him, and all this is the fault of philosophy." A note by Kierkegaard suggests how he might have finished the work: "Doubt is conquered not by the system but by faith, just as it is faith that has brought doubt into the world!."

Sickness Unto Death

Soren Kierkegaard
Sickness Unto Death Book PDF

Author : Soren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781625585912

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Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard Pdf

Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation [which accounts for it] that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but [consists in the fact] that the relation relates itself to its own self. Man is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity; in short, it is a synthesis.

Kierkegaard's 'Fear and Trembling'

Clare Carlisle
Kierkegaard s Fear and Trembling Book PDF

Author : Clare Carlisle
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847064615

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Kierkegaard's 'Fear and Trembling' by Clare Carlisle Pdf

A concise and accessible introduction, this Reader's Guide takes students through Kierkegaard's most important work and a key nineteenth century philosophical text.

Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling

Robert L. Perkins
Kierkegaard s Fear and Trembling Book PDF

Author : Robert L. Perkins
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781725226395

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Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling by Robert L. Perkins Pdf

Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling: Critical Appraisals was the first anthology of essays on Kierkegaard's classic to be published in English. The authors are a remarkable collection of scholars, some already well known and some standing at the beginning of their scholarly careers. The list of authors includes Louis Jacobs, David A. Pailin, Merold Westphal, Paul Holmer, Edward F. Mooney, John Donnelly, C. Stephen Evans, David J. Wren, Mark C. Taylor, Nancy Jay Crumbine, and Jerry H. Gill. The collection contains comparative, historical, and analytic essays focusing on Kierkegaard's relations to the Akedah, the multiple tensions raised by Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac. These essays abound with penetrating insights into many Kierkegaardian concepts that are important not just in Fear and Trembling but found throughout Kierkegaard's writings, such as paradox, resignation, faith, the absurd, the individual, the poet, the hero, immediacy, the ethical and its suspension, the leap of faith, offence, and silence.

Kierkegaard's Writings, VI, Volume 6

Søren Kierkegaard
Kierkegaard s Writings VI Volume 6 Book PDF

Author : Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400846955

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Kierkegaard's Writings, VI, Volume 6 by Søren Kierkegaard Pdf

Presented here in a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, Fear and Trembling and Repetition are the most poetic and personal of Søren Kierkegaard's pseudonymous writings. Published in 1843 and written under the names Johannes de Silentio and Constantine Constantius, respectively, the books demonstrate Kierkegaard's transmutation of the personal into the lyrically religious. Each work uses as a point of departure Kierkegaard's breaking of his engagement to Regine Olsen--his sacrifice of "that single individual." From this beginning Fear and Trembling becomes an exploration of the faith that transcends the ethical, as in Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Isaac at God's command. This faith, which persists in the face of the absurd, is rewarded finally by the return of all that the faithful one is willing to sacrifice. Repetition discusses the most profound implications of unity of personhood and of identity within change, beginning with the ironic story of a young poet who cannot fulfill the ethical claims of his engagement because of the possible consequences of his marriage. The poet finally despairs of repetition (renewal) in the ethical sphere, as does his advisor and friend Constantius in the aesthetic sphere. The book ends with Constantius' intimation of a third kind of repetition--in the religious sphere.

Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling by S ren Kierkegaard Book PDF

Author : Søren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798737476793

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Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard by Søren Kierkegaard Pdf

Fear and Trembling is a philosophical work by Søren Kierkegaard, published in 1843. The title is a reference to a line from Philippians 2:12, "...continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling." Kierkegaard wanted to understand the anxiety that must have been present in Abraham when "God tested and said to him, take Isaac, your only son, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah and offer him as a burnt offering on the mountain that I shall show you." Abraham had a choice to complete the task or to refuse to comply with God's orders. He resigned himself to the three-and-a-half-day journey and to the loss of his son. "He said nothing to Sarah, nothing to Eliezer. Who, after all, could understand him, for did not the nature of temptation extract from him a pledge of silence? He split the firewood, he bound Isaac, he lit the fire, he drew the knife." Because he kept everything to himself and chose not to reveal his feelings he "isolated himself as higher than the universal." Several authorities consider the work autobiographical. It can be explained as Kierkegaard's way of working himself through the loss of his fiancee, Regine Olsen. Abraham becomes Kierkegaard and Isaac becomes Regine in this interpretation. A True Classic for all Lovers of Philosophical Works!

Kierkegaard

Stephen Backhouse
Kierkegaard Book PDF

Author : Stephen Backhouse
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780310520894

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Kierkegaard by Stephen Backhouse Pdf

An accessible, expert introduction to one of the greatest minds of nineteenth century. Whether you're completely new to him, or if you're already familiar with his work, Kierkegaard: A Single Life presents a fresh understanding of his life and thought. Kierkegaard was a brilliant and enigmatic loner whose ideas permeated culture, shaped modern Christianity, and influenced people as diverse as Franz Kafka and Martin Luther King Jr. Though few people today have read his work, that lack of familiarity with the real Kierkegaard is changing with this biography by scholar Stephen Backhouse, who clearly presents the man's mind as well as the acute sensitivity behind Kierkegaard's books. Drawing on biographical material that has newly come to light, Kierkegaard: A Single Life introduces his many guises—the thinker, the lover, the recluse, the writer, the controversialist—in prose as compelling and fluid as a novel and pursues clarity to long-standing questions about him: What made this Danish theologian so controversial and influential? Why were so many people drawn to his books, even if they didn't understand what they were reading? Can his complicated relationship with the Church and religion be untangled? Or, for that matter, what about his complicated—at times almost paradoxical—relationship with every sphere of life from politics to poetry? To be considered everything from a great intellect to a dandy, from a martyr to a "false messiah" is no mean feat, and this biography sheds light on Søren Kierkegaard as he was with empathy and humor. Included is an appendix presenting an overview of each of Kierkegaard's works, for the scholar and lay reader alike.

Kierkegaard on Faith and Love

Sharon Krishek
Kierkegaard on Faith and Love Book PDF

Author : Sharon Krishek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139479912

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Kierkegaard on Faith and Love by Sharon Krishek Pdf

Kierkegaard's writings are interspersed with remarkable stories of love, commonly understood as a literary device that illustrates the problematic nature of aesthetic and ethical forms of life, and the contrasting desirability of the life of faith. Sharon Krishek argues that for Kierkegaard the connection between love and faith is far from being merely illustrative. Rather, love and faith have a common structure, and are involved with one another in a way that makes it impossible to love well without faith. Remarkably, this applies to romantic love no less than to neighbourly love. Krishek's original and compelling interpretation of the Works of Love in the light of Kierkegaard's famous analysis of the paradoxicality of faith in Fear and Trembling shows that preferential love, and in particular romantic love, plays a much more important and positive role in his thinking than has usually been assumed.

Fear and Trembling

Soren Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling Book PDF

Author : Soren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141965079

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Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard Pdf

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. The Father of Existentialism, Kierkegaard transformed philosophy with his conviction that we must all create our own nature; in this great work of religious anxiety, he argues that a true understanding of God can only be attained by making a personal 'leap of faith'.