{"product_id":"9780061875991","title":"Spiritual Writings : A New Translation and Selection","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpiritual Writings\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Soren Kierkegaard, George Pattison\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“By far the most profound thinker of the 19th century” —Ludwig Wittgenstein \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kierkegaard’s great contribution to Western philosophy was to assert, or to reassert with Romantic urgency, that, subjectively speaking, each existence is the center of the universe.” —John Updike, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarper Perennial Modern Classics presents the rediscovered spiritual writings of Søren Kierkegaard, edited and translated by Oxford theologian George Pattison. Called “the first modernist” by \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/em\u003eand “the father of existentialism” by the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, Kierkegaard left an indelible imprint on existential writers from Sartre and Camus to Kafka and Derrida. In works like \u003cem\u003eFear and Trembling\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSickness unto Death\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eEither\/Or\u003c\/em\u003e, he by famously articulated that all meaning is rooted in subjective experience—but the devotional essays that Patterson reveals in \u003cem\u003eSpiritual Writings\u003c\/em\u003e will forever change our understanding of the great philosopher, uncovering the spiritual foundations beneath his secularist philosophy.\u003cem\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“George Pattison offers us a deeply valuable introduction to a great philosopher.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780061875991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial Modern Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41052478963918,"sku":"9780061875991","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780061875991.jpg?v=1652144668","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780061875991","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}