{"product_id":"spiritual-writings-gift-creation-love-selections-from-the-upbuilding-discourses-9780061875991","title":"Spiritual Writings: Gift, Creation, Love: Selections from the Upbuilding Discourses","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\"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\u003eHarper Perennial Modern Classics presents the rediscovered spiritual writings of S ren 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\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePattison, George:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eGeorge Pattison is a professor of theology at Oxford University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKierkegaard, Soren:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eSøren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) lived in Copenhagen, Denmark. His books include \u003cem\u003eWorks of Love\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSpiritual Writings\u003c\/em\u003e (translated and edited by George Pattison).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50543365587218,"sku":"9780061875991","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_eac76cc9-3351-44b7-8f0c-544a6396dd88.jpg?v=1731507489","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/spiritual-writings-gift-creation-love-selections-from-the-upbuilding-discourses-9780061875991","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}