{"product_id":"spiritual-writings-a-new-translation-and-selection","title":"Spiritual Writings: A New Translation and Selection","description":"\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","brand":"Soren Kierkegaard","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":51669472346418,"sku":"9780061875991","price":15.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0988\/7934\/0850\/files\/9780061875991.jpg?v=1787958248","url":"https:\/\/53rdstreetbooks.com\/products\/spiritual-writings-a-new-translation-and-selection","provider":"53rd Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}