Fear And Trembling: The Sickness Unto Death
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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At the crossroads of faith, despair, and the individual's relationship with God, Søren Kierkegaard's twin masterworks stand as two of the most penetrating works of existential philosophy ever written. Fear and Trembling, published under the pseudonym Johannes de Silentio, dissects the biblical story of Abraham and Isaac to argue that true faith demands an absolute, terrifying surrender of reason — a teleological suspension of the ethical that places the individual in direct, agonizing confrontation with the divine. Paired alongside it, The Sickness Unto Death, written as Anti-Climacus, chronicles the crippling condition of despair, presenting it not merely as an emotional state but as a fundamental spiritual failure — the self's refusal to be itself before God. Together, these two texts form the philosophical and theological bedrock of Christian existentialism, cementing Kierkegaard's reputation as the father of existentialism and anticipating the works of Heidegger, Sartre, and Camus. His prose is dense yet electrifying, moving between poetic meditation and rigorous dialectical argument with the grace of a thinker unafraid to wrestle with the darkest corners of human consciousness. Whether one arrives as a philosopher, a theologian, or simply a seeker, these pages pose a question that refuses to be silenced: what does it truly mean to be a self, and are you brave enough to become one?
Author: S. Kierkegaard
Format: Paperback
Genre: Philosophy
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the crossroads of faith, despair, and the individual's relationship with God, Søren Kierkegaard's twin masterworks stand as two of the most penetrating works of existential philosophy ever written. Fear and Trembling, published under the pseudonym Johannes de Silentio, dissects the biblical story of Abraham and Isaac to argue that true faith demands an absolute, terrifying surrender of reason — a teleological suspension of the ethical that places the individual in direct, agonizing confrontation with the divine. Paired alongside it, The Sickness Unto Death, written as Anti-Climacus, chronicles the crippling condition of despair, presenting it not merely as an emotional state but as a fundamental spiritual failure — the self's refusal to be itself before God. Together, these two texts form the philosophical and theological bedrock of Christian existentialism, cementing Kierkegaard's reputation as the father of existentialism and anticipating the works of Heidegger, Sartre, and Camus. His prose is dense yet electrifying, moving between poetic meditation and rigorous dialectical argument with the grace of a thinker unafraid to wrestle with the darkest corners of human consciousness. Whether one arrives as a philosopher, a theologian, or simply a seeker, these pages pose a question that refuses to be silenced: what does it truly mean to be a self, and are you brave enough to become one?