Ricardo Quadros Gouvêa, A Palavra e o Silêncio: Kierkegaard e a relação dialética entre a razão e a fé em Temor e Tremor [The Word and the Silence: Kierkegaard and the Dialectical Relation between Reason and Faith in Fear and Trembling],

This chapter talks about the book A Palavra e o Silêncio (The Word and the Silence) by Ricardo Quadros Gouvêa. The work aims to present a thorough reading of the theme of faith and reason in an analysis of Fear and Trembling. Gouvêa's study presents itself as one of many in which scrupulous exegetical readings of the Kierkegaardian oeuvre are developed, which places it in a good philosophical tradition. Each chapter of the book is devoted to a part of Fear and Trembling, so that the structure of Gouvêa's book is almost identical to Kierkegaard's text, and as such it can be read mainly as an exegetical commentary. Gouvêa argues, along the lines of John Elrod, that Fear and Trembling can be read as an attack on the philosophical project of the nineteenth century of reducing religion to morality, which tries to establish a delimitation of a "realm of ethical decision that is beyond the State, culture, philosophy or theology".