"By far the most profound thinker of the 19th century" --Ludwig
Wittgenstein
"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, The New
Yorker
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 The
Guardian and "the father of existentialism" by the New York Times,
Kierkegaard left an indelible imprint on existential writers from Sartre
and Camus to Kafka and Derrida. In works like Fear and Trembling,
Sickness unto Death, and Either/Or, he by famously articulated that
all meaning is rooted in subjective experience--but the devotional
essays that Patterson reveals in Spiritual Writings will forever
change our understanding of the great philosopher, uncovering the
spiritual foundations beneath his secularist philosophy.