Kierkegaard's account of Abraham in 'Fear and Trembling' demonstrates an absolute secret grounded not in linguistic structure but in an incommensurable singular relation to the divine that resists all mediation.

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Abraham(the central example Kierkegaard uses): A figure from the Bible and Jewish/Christian/Islamic traditions; in this context, Kierkegaard focuses on the moment when God asked Abraham to sacrifice his own son as a test of faith.
Fear and Trembling(the specific work being referenced): A famous book by Kierkegaard that tells the story of Abraham (from the Bible) and uses it to explore what real faith demands of us.
Kierkegaard(the philosopher whose work is being discussed): A 19th-century Danish philosopher who explored questions about faith, anxiety, and what it means to be an individual making difficult choices.
Mediation(Sartre, 1948a, 56; analogous to Merleau-Ponty's account of expression as communication.): The process by which individual expression is related to shared communal meaning, used by Sartre in a sense germane to the existentialist account of expression.

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