Fear and Trembling

"Among the many advantages of this fluent, adept translation is its robust Glossary of key excerpts from other Kierkegaardian texts, signed as well as pseudonymous. Because Fear and Trembling cannot be understood apart from the rest of Kierkegaard's writings, this feature will be exceedingly valuable to all readers."
-Rick Anthony Furtak, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Colorado College

"Among the many advantages of this fluent, adept translation is its robust Glossary of key excerpts from other Kierkegaardian texts, signed as well as pseudonymous. Because Fear and Trembling cannot be understood apart from the rest of Kierkegaard's writings, this feature will be exceedingly valuable to all readers."
-Rick Anthony Furtak, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Colorado College

"I am a professor of philosophy whose research partially focuses on the work of Soren Kierkegaard. For years, I've avoided teaching this work of Kierkegaard's, primarily because of how inaccessible it is as a stand-alone work. This translation, with its accompanying (unbelievably thorough) glossary of Kierkegaardian terms, has changed the game on that front. The reader of this translation will be introduced to the work via, not just a richer and more accurate English translation (although, that too), but also explicitly-drawn connections between this and the rest of the work in Kierkegaard's oeuvre. In addition to all of that, the translation is beautiful, finally doing "lyrical" service to the Dane's most influential book. Don't use any other translation. Just get this one."
—Megan Fritts, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Arkansas at Little Rock


Alexander Jech is Professor of the Practice of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame.