Temor e Tremor – Kierkegaard e o segredo de Derrida

Abstract

The present dissertation begins with what is understood by Kierkegaard’s main relationships – with family, with the Danish intelligentsia, and with members of the local Lutheran Church. Starting from solid facts, like a personal relationship, we proceed to study the ideas – and their manifestations –, such as Christianity – and its distorted version, Christendom – and Hegel’s philosophy – and the Hegelians. Having the theoretical ground prepared, we advance towards Kierkegaard’s ‘stages of existence’, namely: aesthetic, ethical, and religious, the latter being divided between A and B (the first ethical-religious and the second Christian, of the leap of faith into the paradox). The story of Abraham’s sacrifice is the central axis to fulfill the purpose of the work to study the question of Abraham’s silence from Kierkegaard’s perspective, also considering Derrida’s analysis that shares the same theme, so we can achieve concepts like paradox, decision, and the very question of the other, more accurately.