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Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling (Live Reading)

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Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling (Live Reading)

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We will be reading within Problema III (Danish page 149), starting at, "If a similar but more moving plot is wanted"

Mystery! Adventure! Faith?! Murder?!

Let us travel once more to Mount Moriah with Johannes de Silentio in order to solve the shocking mystery: how can we understand Abraham, who offered up Issac as a sacrifice (he drew the knife, anyway)?

PDF: https://1lib.us/book/784396/d93d9e

Amazon Link:
https://www.amazon.com/Fear-Trembling-Repetition-Kierkegaards-Writings/dp/0691020264/ref=sr_1_4

On the Friday Meetings:
The Friday meetings started January 1st, 2016 with an initial goal of reading through the first half of Kierkegaard's works. Due to continued interest, we have decided to do some review, and continue on beyond this point as well.

Works read so far in series:

  • The Concept of Irony, With Continual Reference to Socrates (Kierkegaard)
  • Notes of Schelling's Berlin Lectures (Kierkegaard)
  • Either/Or (Victor Eremita, et al.)
  • Two Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
  • Fear and Trembling (Johannes de Silentio)
  • Repetition (Constantin Constantius)
  • Three Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
  • Four Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
  • Two Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
  • Three Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
  • Philosophical Fragments (Johannes Climacus)
  • Johannes Climacus or De Omnibus Dubitandum Est (Johannes Climacus)
  • Concept of Anxiety (Vigilius Haufniensis)
  • Prefaces (Nicolaus Notabene)
  • Writing Sampler (A.B.C.D.E.F. Godthaab)
  • Four Upbuilding Discourses (Kierkegaard)
  • Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions (Kierkegaard)
  • Stages on Life's Way (Hilarious Bookbinder)
  • Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments (Johannes Climacus)

Works read, but not by Kierkegaard or a pseudonym:

  • The First Love (Scribe)
  • The Berlin Lectures (Schelling)
  • Clavigo (Goethe)
  • Faust Part I (Goethe)
  • Antigone (Sophocles)

Some background on Soren Kierkegaard in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
https://iep.utm.edu/kierkega/

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