Spiritual Writings: Gift, Creation, Love: Selections from the Upbuilding Discour

<p>"By far the most profound thinker of the 19th century" --Ludwig Wittgenstein <p></p></p> <p> </p></p><p>"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, <em>The New Yorker</em><p></p></p> <p> </p></p><p>Harper 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 <em>The Guardian </em>and "the father of existentialism" by the <em>New York Times</em>, Kierkegaard left an indelible imprint on existential writers from Sartre and Camus to Kafka and Derrida. In works like <em>Fear and Trembling</em>, <em>Sickness unto Death</em>, and <em>Either/Or</em>, he by famously articulated that all meaning is rooted in subjective experience--but the devotional essays that Patterson reveals in <em>Spiritual Writings</em> will forever change our understanding of the great philosopher, uncovering the spiritual foundations beneath his secularist philosophy.<em><p></p></em></p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Soren Kierkegaard, George Pattison<br><b>Publisher:</b> Harper Perennial<br><b>Published:</b> 11/09/2010<br><b>Pages:</b> 336<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.57lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.06h x 5.30w x 0.80d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780061875991<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Publishers Weekly</i> 09/0