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Fear and Trembling
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I was going to write that I still come back to this book, even ten years after reading it for the first time. But that's not quite true. What is true is that this book has never really left me; it has worked itself into my psyche and become an automatic philosophical reference point for my life.
Kierkegaard's discussion of faith versus resignation is an exhileration to read. His unfolding of the concept of the absurd in the universe is sublime. Everyone should dive into this work, grapple with it, and re-emerge with some of Kierkegaard's Romantic greatness internalized.
Kierkegaard's discussion of faith versus resignation is an exhileration to read. His unfolding of the concept of the absurd in the universe is sublime. Everyone should dive into this work, grapple with it, and re-emerge with some of Kierkegaard's Romantic greatness internalized.
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Aug 28, 2007 09:13AM
you have precisely pinpointed my relationship to this book. thank you.
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Really? Exhilerating? I found this a barely-penetrable mishmash of ideas that desperately needed a editor to put it into a coherent form. Its sole distinction is that it may have been the starting point for the obscurantist style of academic writing that finally self-destructed some time after the Sokal hoax.
