{"product_id":"9780061875991","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“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, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\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 \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003eand “the father of existentialism” by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Kierkegaard left an indelible imprint on existential writers from Sartre and Camus to Kafka and Derrida. In works like \u003ci\u003eFear and Trembling\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSickness unto Death\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEither\/Or\u003c\/i\u003e, he by famously articulated that all meaning is rooted in subjective experience—but the devotional essays that Patterson reveals in \u003ci\u003eSpiritual Writings\u003c\/i\u003e will forever change our understanding of the great philosopher, uncovering the spiritual foundations beneath his secularist philosophy.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011253977328,"sku":"9780061875991","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780061875991_p0.jpg?v=1763772975","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061875991","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}