Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling: Critical Appraisals (Kierkegaard Classic Studies)

Kierkegaards Fear and Trembling: Critical Appraisals was the first anthology of essays on Kierkegaards classic to be published in English. The authors are a remarkable collection of scholars some already well known and some standing at the beginning of their scholarly careers. The list of authors includes Louis Jacobs David A. Pailin Merold Westphal Paul Holmer Edward F. Mooney John Donnelly C. Stephen Evans David J. Wren Mark C. Taylor Nancy Jay Crumbine and Jerry H. Gill. The collection contains comparative historical and analytic essays focusing on Kierkegaards relations to the Akedah the multiple tensions raised by Abrahams sacrifice of Isaac. These essays abound with penetrating insights into many Kierkegaardian concepts that are important not just in Fear and Trembling but found throughout Kierkegaards writings such as paradox resignation faith the absurd the individual the poet the hero immediacy the ethical and its suspension the leap of faith offence and silence.