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11441219 No.11441219 [Reply] [Original]

What's the best translation of Fear and Trembling? Do I need to read the bible first to understand Soren Kierkegaard?

>> No.11441229

>>11441219
Do NOT start with Fear and Trembling. Read Either/Or first.

>> No.11441235

Start with the Jews

>> No.11441238

>>11441229
So I don't need the bible? What's the best translation of Either/Or? Why is starting with Fear and Trembling a bad idea?

>> No.11441243

>>11441235
Sorry, I'm not interested in the Torah.

>> No.11441303

>>11441235
What about the Greeks?

>> No.11441313

Hong

>> No.11441315

>>11441243
I’m not the guy you’re replying to, but Fear and Trembling is *literally* an exegesis of a story from the Torah.

>> No.11441321

>>11441315
Which one?

>> No.11441325

>>11441321
Abraham and Isaac

>> No.11441346

You literally must read Genesis to read F&T. It's non-negotiable.

>> No.11441352

>>11441321
But honestly, just familiarize yourself with the story and you’ll be fine. Kierkegaard will explain the implications of it. No need to read the entire bible first.

But like the other guy said, pick up a copy of Either/Or, preferably the Princeton edition. Read the introduction. The translation is by Hong I believe, same with the Princeton edition of Fear and Trembling.

>> No.11441356

>>11441303
The Greeks -> The Jews' sacred texts (Tanakh) -> The Romans -> The New Testament -> The Early Christians -> The Muslims -> The Scholastics -> The Modern Europeans -> The West

>> No.11441357

>>11441238
F&T is perfectly fine to start with. Either/Or greatly benefits from knowing Kierkegaard's general view point first. The Hong translations are by far and large the best translations of Kierkegaard, check out the Hong's backgrounds and you'll see why. You can understand Kierkegaard without the Bible, it might not be a bad thing to have one while reading Kierkegaard. He makes references to it quite a bit, and the translations will give you the book and passages that he's referencing.

If anything read up on Hegel's ethcial philosophy. Philosophy of Right is a good place to look. But even that's not totally required, just an understanding of it.

>> No.11441372

https://soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/present-generation-and-work-soren-kierkegaards-fear-and-trembling-sadlers-lectures

>> No.11441539

Thoughts on the Hannay translation of Fear and Trembling?

>> No.11441586

>>11441357
Thanks.

>> No.11441671

why's he a christian

>> No.11442049

>>11441671
Why not?

>> No.11442194

>>11441346
I read from Abram's introduction to him nearly sacrificing Isaac. Good enough?

>> No.11442222

>>11441671
Because he grew up in a relatively then conservative Christian country, and studied to become a Christian theologian.

>> No.11442355

>>11441219
you need to read the bible to understand anything in life and in fact you should stop reading books at that one.