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Fear and Trembling

Great Ideas

Søren Kierkegaard - Author

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ISBN 9780143037576 | 160 pages | 30 May 2006 | Penguin | 0.11 x 0.11in | 18 - AND UP
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If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?


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Regarded as the father of Existentialism, Kierkegaard transformed philosophy with his conviction that we must all create our own nature; in this great work of religious anxiety, he argues that a true understanding of God can only be attained by making a personal "leap of faith."

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