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CONCLUSION Kurt Vonnegut claimed that the New Journalists like Thompson practiced “the literary equivalent of Cubism.” By exposing the twisted nature of reality, they confronted readers with “luminous aspects of beloved old truths.” Reading Thompson’s cubist quest alongside Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling underscores three truths that, while not necessarily beloved, are pertinent nonetheless. First, whetherContinue reading “Work In Progress: Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas Part 4”

SECTION III: Out on Highway 61 This is the heart of Kierkegaard’s insight into the story of Abraham and Isaac: we must resign any path to God that first takes us through a universal system of ethics and reason. Instead, the individual must confront the absolute God of the Bible directly. Then the individual canContinue reading “Work In Progress: Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas Part 3”

SECTION I: Twisted Reality The key stylistic features of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling are: Its pseudonymous authorship, which opens up a gap between the author and the book’s argument Its dialectical interplay of narrative and analysis And, finally, its sense of humor. Kierkegaard satirizes staid Christianity and pretentious Hegelian philosophy in equal measures, and theContinue reading “Work in Progress: Fear and Trembling in Las Vegas Part 2”