Kyle Harrison
to-read
Fear and Trembling
- Author
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Published
- 1843
- Pages
- 160
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Kierkegaard’s meditation, written under the pseudonym Johannes de Silentio, on Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice Isaac — what faith asks of a person when it runs past ethics.
Where I heard about it
- @athenaeumbc — one of ~35 old books in a stack photographed by Athenaeum Book Club (October 2026) under the line “One of the hidden benefits of reading old books is that they rescue you from the arrogance of the present.” The full stack is listed on One of the hidden benefits… (tweet).
Connections
- Søren Kierkegaard — author.
- Faith — the book’s subject.
- One of the hidden benefits… (tweet) — the stack it came from.