Fear and Trembling
by Søren Kierkegaard(1843)
Philosophyc. 100 pages
“The knight of faith is the only happy man, the heir to the finite, while the knight of resignation is a stranger and a foreigner.”
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by Søren Kierkegaard(1843)
“The knight of faith is the only happy man, the heir to the finite, while the knight of resignation is a stranger and a foreigner.”
Søren Kierkegaard(1843)
Kierkegaard meditates on the binding of Isaac: Abraham, commanded by God to sacrifice his son, raises the knife. What kind of faith could make such obedience possible? The book is written under a pseudonym who cannot understand Abraham, who circles the story again and again without penetrating its mystery. The prose performs its own bewilderment. Kierkegaard argued that religious faith cannot be reduced to ethics, that it requires a leap beyond what reason can justify. The book has disturbed and inspired readers since 1843.