Kierkegaard's Fear and trembling : a critical guide / edited by Daniel Conway.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Conway, Daniel W., editor.

Series:

Cambridge critical guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855. Frygt og bæven.

Christianity--Philosophy.

Sin--Christianity.

Frygt og bæven (Kierkegaard, Søren).

Physical Description:

xiv, 278 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Summary:

"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 essays 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. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and upper-level students of Kierkegaard studies, the history of philosophy, theology and religious studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107034617

1107034612

OCLC:

881064553

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