A review by gijs
Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard

4.0

Never a good thing to suspend all your critical faculties and surrender to the closed mind of the 'knight of faith'; which is exactly what faith requires of you to start with. You end up having to explain the anguish and internal strife you alone can feel when hiking with your own son up to mount Moriah, all the while staying silent on your true motive, to ultimately bind your son and slit his throat for a burnt offering just to prove your immaculate 'relationship to the universal'. This is what happens when you take neoplatonism too seriously and by self-righteously 'teleologically suspending your every ethical sense' end up wreaking havoc in the real world of particulars (ie the place where all the sane people live). A provocative work to be sure, and therefore worth your time.