Author : Kevin Hoffman
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ISBN 13 : 9780881468076
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (68 download)
Book Synopsis Exceptionally Common Courage by : Kevin Hoffman
Download or read book Exceptionally Common Courage written by Kevin Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EXCEPTIONALLY COMMON COURAGE provides an extended, close reading of FEAR AND TREMBLING, Kierkegaard's pseudonymous book about Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac. It then fits this (in)famous work into the broader and puzzling corpus that includes both other pseudonymous works and signed discourses by this same mercurial author. The scholarly debates inevitably generated by any treatment of FEAR AND TREMBLING are here addressed in ways that arise from a detailed interpretation of the text itself without letting secondary material interrupt the primary train of thought. Along the way, Kierkegaard's ideas are brought into conversation with a much broader than usual cannon of interlocutors, including such figures as Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and James Baldwin, R.H. Tawney and Wendell Berry. As the chapters unfold, this understanding of faith as a form of courage provides not just direction, but a topographical score for what is originally a highly indirect and elusive textual arrangement.