Fear and trembling, and, The book on Adler

Soren Kierkegaard not only -trans-formed Protestant theology but also anticipated twentieth-century existentialism and provided it with many of its motifs. "Fear and Trembling" and "The Book on Adler"-addressed to a general audience-have the imaginative excitement and intense personal appeal of the greatest literature. Only Plato and Nietzsche have matched Kierkegaard's ability to give ideas so compellingly vivid and dramatic a shape. Translated by Walter Lowrie