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Fear and Trembling - A New Translation by Soren Kierkegaard
Category: Philosophy
This newly translated Fear and Trembling, a founding document of modern philosophy and existentialism, could not be more apt for these perilous times. First published in 1843 under the pseudonym "Johannes de silentio" (John of Silence), Soren Kierkegaard's richly resonant Fear and Trembling has for gen ...Show more
Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio by Soren Kierkegaard; Alastair Hannay (Translation by)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard, writing under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio, expounds his personal view of religion through a discussion of the scene in Genesis in which Abraham prepares to sacrifice his son at God's command. Believing Abraham's unreserved obedience to be the essential leap of f ...Show more
Great Ideas: Fear And Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
The infamous and controversial work that made a lasting impression on both modern Protestant theology and existentialist philosophers such as Sartre and Camus Writing under the pseudonym of "Johannes de silentio," Kierkegaard expounds his personal view of religion through a discussion of the scene in ...Show more
Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs by Soren Kierkegaard
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love' So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard's Repetition. Life itself, according to Kierkegaard's pseudonymous narrator, is a repetition, and in the course of this witty, playful work Constantius explores the nature of love an ...Show more
The Concept Of Anxiety A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation In View Of The Dogmatic Problem Of Hereditary Sin by Soren Kierkegaard
Category: Non-Fiction
Brilliantly synthesizing human insights with Christian dogma, Soren Kierkegaard presented, in 1844, The Concept of Anxiety as a landmark "psychological deliberation," suggesting that our only hope in overcoming anxiety was not through "powder and pills" but by embracing it with open arms. While Kierkega ...Show more
The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, "The Sickness Unto Death" is also famed for the depth and acuity of its modern psychological insights. Writing under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, Kierkegaard explores the concept of 'despair', alerting readers to the diversity of ...Show more
The Sickness unto Death - A New Translation by Soren Kierkegaard; Bruce H. Kirmmse (Translator)
Category: Classics
The "greatest psychologist of the spirit since St. Augustine" (Gregory R. Beabout), Soren Kierkegaard is renowned for such richly imagined philosophical works as Fear and Trembling and The Concept of Anxiety. Yet only The Sickness unto Death condenses his most essential ideas--on aesthetics, ethics, and ...Show more
Works of Love by Soren Kierkegaard
Category: Gift
The various kinds and conditions of love are a common theme for Kierkegaard, beginning with his early Either/Or, through "The Diary of the Seducer" and Judge William's eulogy on married love, to his last work, on the changelessness of God's love. Works of Love, the midpoint in the series, is also the mo ...Show more
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