Fear and Trembling, or the Singularity of Silence
Abstract
This paper offers a reading of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling in which, by means of the two examples of philosophy that the work contrasts, it is exposed that the recognition of singularity constitutes the text’s real center of gravity. This central content must be understood together with the dialectics of word and silence that formally determines the work. By recognizing the centrality of the voice opposite the impossibility of the vision, it is shown how the pseudonym Johannes de silentio, in his encounter with Abraham, quietens every speculation around the patriarch’s faith while allowing philosophy to speak in order to say what the paradox of faith entails, namely, the singularity of the individual, which has an ethical sense, yet resting upon a transcendence that refers to religiousness.
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