ABSTRACT
Any serious academic work, written in Hebrew, which deals with the works of Søren Kierkegaard, is a long awaited blessing for the readers of Continental philosophy in Israel. Tamar Aylat-Yaguri has undertaken the arduous task of providing an empathic and cogent analysis of Kierkegaard's religious sphere, and has provided a sympathetic analysis of Kierkegaard's concept of the pathos of faith that surpasses the ethos of duty. The book Human Dialogue with the Absolute clarifies and interprets the two paramount philosophical writings of Kierkegaard that until now have yet to be translated to Hebrew: Philosophical Fragments and the Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments. Aylat-Yaguri's book defends her assertion that Kierkegaard, like Climacus, does not seek the destruction of thinking. The book is embellished with biblical proverbs, emphasizing that Kierkegaard's Religiousness A, the experience of faith, is universally applied, contrary to Religiousness B, that culminates with the paradoxes of the Christian faith.
