Mothers and Melancholia: Sacrifice in Søren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling

Abstract The article examines sacrifice in Søren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling. I argue that in order to understand the meaning of sacrifice in this work, we have to account for the four poetic images of a weaning mother – often overlooked by commentators – that we find in the section entitled “A...

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Main Author: Varslev-Pedersen, Cæcilie (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
Year: 2022, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 377-392
Further subjects:B Mother
B Modernity
B Kierkegaard
B Sacrifice
B Mourning
B weaning
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