Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-03461-7 - Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling: A Critical Guide Edited by Daniel Conway Frontmatter More information KIERKEGAARD’S FEAR AND TREMBLING Written by an international team of contributors, this book offers a fresh set of interpretations of Fear and Trembling, which remains Kierkegaard’s most influential and popular book. The chapters pro- vide incisive accounts of the psychological and epistemological presuppositions of Fear and Trembling; of religious experience and the existential dimension of faith; of Kierkegaard’s understanding of the relationship between faith and knowledge; of the purported and real conflicts between ethics and religion; of Kierkegaard’s interpretation of the value of hope, trust, love, and other virtues; of Kierkegaard’s debts to German idealism and Protestant theology; and of his seminal contributions to the fields of psychology, existential phenomenology, and literary theory. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and upper-level students of Kierkegaard studies, the history of phil- osophy, theology, and religious studies. daniel conway is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Texas A&M University. He is the author of many books including Nietzsche’s Dangerous Game (Cambridge, 1997), Nietzsche and the Poli- tical (1997), and Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals: A Reader’s Guide (2008). He has also edited and co-edited several volumes including Søren Kierkegaard: Critical Assessments of Leading Philoso- phers (2002) and The History of Continental Philosophy, Volume II (with Alan D. 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Conway, Daniel W. B4373.F793K544 2015 1980.9–dc23 2014017599 ISBN 978-1-107-03461-7 Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-03461-7 - Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling: A Critical Guide Edited by Daniel Conway Frontmatter More information Contents List of contributors page vii Acknowledgments xi List of abbreviations xii Introduction 1 Daniel Conway 1 Homing in on Fear and Trembling 6 Alastair Hannay 2 Fear and Trembling’s “Attunement” as midrash 26 Jacob Howland 3 Johannes de silentio’s dilemma 44 Clare Carlisle 4 Can an admirer of silentio’s Abraham consistently believe that child sacrifice is forbidden? 61 C. Stephen Evans 5 Eschatological faith and repetition: Kierkegaard’s Abraham and Job 79 John Davenport 6 The existential dimension of faith 106 Sharon Krishek 7 Learning to hope: the role of hope in Fear and Trembling 122 John Lippitt 8 On being moved and hearing voices: passion and religious experience in Fear and Trembling 142 Rick Anthony Furtak v © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-03461-7 - Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling: A Critical Guide Edited by Daniel Conway Frontmatter More information vi Contents 9 Birth, love, and hybridity: Fear and Trembling and the Symposium 166 Edward F. Mooney and Dana Lloyd 10 Narrative unity and the moment of crisis in Fear and Trembling 188 Anthony Rudd 11 Particularity and ethical attunement: situating Problema III 205 Daniel Conway 12 ‘He speaks in tongues’: hearing the truth of Abraham’s words of faith 229 Jeffrey Hanson 13 Why Moriah?: weaning and the trauma of transcendence in Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling 247 Vanessa Rumble Bibliography 263 Index 273 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-03461-7 - Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling: A Critical Guide Edited by Daniel Conway Frontmatter More information Contributors clare carlisle is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion at King’s College London, where she is also Director of the AKC Programme. Her books include Kierkegaard’s Philosophy of Becoming (2005), Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling (2010), and On Habit (2014). daniel conway is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Nietzsche’s Dangerous Game (1997), Nietzsche and the Political (1997), and Reader’s Guide to Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals (2008). He is the editor of the four-volume series Nietzsche: Critical Assessments of Leading Philoso- phers (1998) and the four-volume series Søren Kierkegaard: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (2002). He is also the co-editor of The History of Continental Philosophy, Volume II (2010). john davenport is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. He has published widely on Kierkegaard, topics in moral psychology, existentialism, and philosophy of religion. With Anthony Rudd, he co-edited Kierkegaard After MacIntyre (2001), which defended the rele- vance of Kierkegaard’s ideas for contemporary debates about virtue and teleological conceptions of selfhood. In addition to published articles on Either/Or, the Concept of Anxiety and Stages on Life’s Way, he has recently published three essays on Fear and Trembling, faith in the Postscript, and Levinas’ and Derrida’s responses to Kierkegaard’s account of Abraham. His new monograph, Narrative Identity, Autonomy, and Mortality: From MacIntyre and Frankfurt to Kierkegaard (2012), defends MacIntyre’s narrative approach to practical identity and the stronger conception of narrative selfhood found in Kierkegaard’s “Purity of Heart.” c. stephen evans is University Professor of Philosophy and Human- ities at Baylor University and a Professorial Fellow at Australian Catholic University. His most recent books include God and Moral vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-03461-7 - Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling: A Critical Guide Edited by Daniel Conway Frontmatter More information viii Contributors Obligation (2013), Natural Signs and Knowledge of God (2010), Kierke- gaard: An Introduction (2009), and Kierkegaard on Faith and the Self (2006). Evans co-edited (with Sylvia Walsh) the Cambridge University Press edition of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling. He is a past president of the Kierkegaard Society of North America and of the Society of Christian Philosophers. rick anthony furtak is Associate Professor and Chairperson in the Philosophy Department