fear + trembling
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Class assignment: create a book jacket. I chose to design a book cover for Soren Kierkegaard’s seminal work Fear and Trembling because the author and his work are personal inspirations. For the cover I decided on a haunting image that requires contemplation and personal interpretation that reflects the title.Since Fear and Trembling was written in the mid 1800s, I chose to add a contemporary aesthetic that is incongruous with other book jackets from this era.The linear grey lines represent the meanderings people encounter in their life in respects to the main articles in Fear and Trembling: the faith of Abraham to sacrifice his son, the four alternative retellings in which Abraham fails the test of faith and teleological suspension of ethics.TRANSCRIPT
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
FEAR AND TREMBLING
Fear and Trembling (in the translations of Dr. Walter Lowrie, with revisions by Dr. Howard Johnson), were called by Kierkegaard himself “the most perfect books I have written.”
Fear and Trembling analyzes, with an almost inhumanpassion and intesity, the significance, in Kierkegaard’s terms, of the biblical story of the sacrifice of Isaac, and introduces us to a crucial idea for modern existentialism, the “absurd.”
A DOUBLEDAY ANCHOR BOOKNEW YORK, 1954
MY WAY
YOUR WAY
FAITH + OBEDIENCE
Soren Kierkegaard (1819-55) is now generally recognized as the greatest religious thinker of the nineteenth century; he remained obscure so long because his violent attack on the efforts of nineteenth-century theologians to “rationalize” religion and link it with progress and sciences was not in harmony with the times; and (probably) because he wrote in Danish. In recent years, almost all his books have been translated into English-and they include brilliant writing on philosophy, aesthetics, ethics, and psychology, as well as works on religion and theology-and he has become the principal source for contemporary existentialist philosophy, whether religious or irreligious.
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