Spiritual Writings

<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 Søren 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>