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    Spiritual Writings: A New Translation and Selection

    By Soren Kierkegaard and George Pattison

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    “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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateNov 9, 2010
    ISBN9780062036360
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    Spiritual Writings: A New Translation and Selection
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    Soren Kierkegaard

    Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) lived in Copenhagen, Denmark. His books include Works of Love and Spiritual Writings (translated and edited by George Pattison).

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      A collection of essays by Kierkegaard in which he does deep dives into particular texts in the New Testament in a way which will challenge the modern reader maintaining Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment assumptions.The deep dives include James 1 about God as the giver of all good gifts; much is made of Matthew 6 and anxiety, really deeply exploring the birds in comparison to humanity; the end is near in 1 Peter 4.Kierkegaard makes you uncomfortable, and his 19th century prose is dense and a slough at times. There's a lot here if you can plow through.

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