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Early Modern · 1843
Fear and Trembling
Frygt og Bæven
Søren Kierkegaard · 1813–1855
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What it is
A pseudonymous meditation circling Abraham on the road to Moriah, refusing to let the story be admired at a distance, and asking whether faith can require a suspension of the ethical that no philosophical system can absorb.
Why it lasted
The book that made Kierkegaard the father of existentialism, and that put the scandal of faith back into a century which had made Christianity respectable.
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Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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