Kierkegaard's Dancing Tax Collector: Faith, Finitude, and Silence

by Sheridan Hough

Kierkegaard's account of the life of faith turns on an astonishing claim: a person living faithfully continually enjoys, and takes part in, everything. What can this assertion actually mean? The pseudonymous author of Fear and Trembling, Johannes de silentio, imagines what such a human being might look like; indeed, as de silentio puts it, "He looks just like a tax collector." This seemingly ordinary person, in his "movements" of faith, finds infinite...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198739990
• ISBN13: 9780198739999
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 7.9"