Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
A Critical Guide

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

Daniel Conway (Edited by)

9781108454131, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 March 2018

292 pages
23 x 15.3 x 1.7 cm, 0.45 kg

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 chapters provide incisive accounts of the psychological and epistemological presuppositions of Fear and Trembling; of religious experience and the existential dimension of faith; of Kierkegaard's understanding of the relationship between faith and knowledge; of the purported and real conflicts between ethics and religion; of Kierkegaard's interpretation of the value of hope, trust, love and other virtues; of Kierkegaard's debts to German idealism and Protestant theology; and of his seminal contributions to the fields of psychology, existential phenomenology and literary theory. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and upper-level students of Kierkegaard studies, the history of philosophy, theology and religious studies.

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.

Subject Areas: Politics & government [JP], Psychology [JM], History of ideas [JFCX], Theology [HRLB], Religion: general [HRA], Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ], Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge [HPK], Phenomenology & Existentialism [HPCF3], Philosophy [HP], Literary theory [DSA]