The late Robert Payne's translation of Kierkegaard's work--one of the most important philosophical texts of all time which explores the author's ideas of religion through the story of Abraham and his willing sacrifice of his son Isaac--was originally published in the 1930s and is printed in the U.S. for the first time in this edition.
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Regarded as the father of Existentialism, Kierkegaard transformed philosophy with his conviction that we must all create our own nature; in this great work of religious anxiety, he argues that a true understanding of God can only be attained by making a personal "leap of faith."