Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling

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 Political (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 Philosophers (2002) and The History of Continental Philosophy, Volume II (with Alan D. Schrift, 2010).

• Introduction Daniel Conway; 1. Homing in on Fear and Trembling Alastair Hannay; 2. Fear and Trembling's 'Attunement' as midrash Jacob Howland; 3. Johannes de silentio's dilemma Claire Carlisle; 4. Can an admirer of silentio's Abraham consistently believe that child sacrifice is forbidden? C. Stephen Evans; 5. Eschatological faith and repetition: Kierkegaard's Abraham and Job John Davenport; 6. The existential dimension of faith Sharon Krishek; 7. Learning to hope: the role of hope in Fear and Trembling John Lippitt; 8. On being moved and hearing voices: passion and religious experience in Fear and Trembling Rick Anthony Furtak; 9. Birth, love, and hybridity: Fear and Trembling and the Symposium Edward F. Mooney and Dana Lloyd; 10. Narrative unity and the moment of crisis in Fear and Trembling Anthony Rudd; 11. Particularity and ethical attunement: situating Problema III Daniel Conway; 12. 'He speaks in tongues': hearing the truth of Abraham's words of faith Jeffrey Hanson; 13. Why Moriah?: weaning and the trauma of transcendence in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling Vanessa Rumble.

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