Presented here in a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, Fear
and Trembling and Repetition are the most poetic and personal of Søren Kierkegaard's
pseudonymous writings. Published in 1843 and written under the names Johannes de
Silentio and Constantine Constantius, respectively, the books demonstrate Kierkegaard's
transmutation of the personal into the lyrically religious. Each work uses as a point of
departure Kierkegaard's breaking of his engagement to Regine Olsen--his sacrifice of" that …

PREFACE erable, humble and honest thinker, whose writings surely no one can read
without the deepest emotion, did what he said and said what he did. Alas, alack, that is a
great rarity in our times! Descartes, as he repeatedly affirmed, did not doubt in matters of
faith." Memores tamen, ut jam dictum est, huic lumini naturali tamdiu tantum esse
credendum, quamdiu nihil contrarium a Deo ipso rcvelatur.... Praetcr caetcr autcm,
mcmoriae nostrae pro summa regula est infigcndum, ea quae nobis a Deo revelata sunt, ut …