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Fear and Trembling

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Title: Fear and Trembling
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
ISBN: 9780140444490
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 1986
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: New
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Philosophy 1548805

Publisher Description:
Writing under the pseudonym of "Johannes de slientio, " 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 'theological 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'.