Fear and Trembling Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio - Penguin Classics Søren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay

Fear and Trembling Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio - Penguin Classics
Søren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay
Paperback (29 Aug 1985)


Publisher's Synopsis

Kierkegaard's infamous and hugely influential philosophical work on faith, choice and sacrifice

In Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard, writing under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio, expounds his personal view of religion through the scene in Genesis in which Abraham prepares to kill his son at God's command. Kierkegaard believed Abraham's unreserved obedience to be the essential leap of faith needed to make a full commitment to his religion. The conviction shown in this polemic - that an individual can have an exceptional mission in life - informed all his later writings, and was also hugely influential for both Protestant theology and the existentialist movement.

Translated with an Introduction by Alastair Hannay


Book information

ISBN: 9780140444490
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Pub date: 29 Aug 1985
DEWEY: 222.110601
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 165
Weight: 138g
Height: 197mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 11mm