Danish
Frygt og Bæven
Fear and Trembling
Søren Kierkegaard
Philosophy written like scripture. Nothing has thought harder about what it costs to believe.
Editions
Forthcoming
The app
Learn Danish by reading Kierkegaard. The original beside a clear translation, read aloud, with every word glossed.
The opening
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The book
Kierkegaard takes the three days of Abraham’s walk to Mount Moriah and refuses to let us look away. Fear and Trembling is philosophy written like scripture and felt like a wound: what manner of faith lifts the knife over a son, and what manner of God demands it? Against every comfortable ethics he sets the solitary, appalling figure of the knight of faith, and dares us to comprehend him. Nothing else has thought so hard about what it costs to believe.
In the app
The original and the translation, side by side.
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The particulars
- The text
- Frygt og Bæven, Søren Kierkegaard
- Translation
- Public-domain Danish (Kierkegaard, d. 1855; published 1843). English translation © 2026 1732 Studios, LLC.
- Method
- The translations are our own, drafted with machine assistance and verified line by line. How the editions are made.
- The app
- The first chapter is free: the complete app, every feature. One unlock covers the rest, yours forever, $4.99. No subscription, no ads.
- Privacy
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