Kierkegaard in golden-age Denmark /

Against the background of Denmark's evolution from a mercantile economy to a broad-based agricultural economy, Kirmmse reinterprets Kierkegaard's thought as a reaction to the tensions within his society.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kirmmse, Bruce H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©1990.
Series:Indiana series in the philosophy of religion.
Subjects:
Kierkegaard, Søren, > 1813-1855 > Political and social views.
Kierkegaard, Søren, > 1813-1855
1800-1899
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Political and social views
Politics and government
Denmark > Politics and government > 19th century.
Danemark > Politique et gouvernement > 19e siècle.
Denmark
Denemarken.
Denmark > Politics and government > 19th century
Geschichte > 1800-1850
Kierkegaard, Søren > 1813-1855 > Political and social views
Biografieën (vorm)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part One: Kierkegaard's Denmark
  • Section I: Political, economic, and social trends
  • Historical background and the rise of peasantry to 1820
  • Religious currents until 1820
  • The peasant awakenings of the 1820's and after
  • The rise of liberalism in the 1830's
  • The peasant movement to the late 1840's
  • The national question in Southern Jutland
  • 1848 and after
  • Section II: Politics and religion in "golden age" culture
  • The social orientation and intellectual origins of the golden age
  • "The rare few": Adam Oehlenschlager and the first generation of the golden age
  • Piety and good taste: J.P. Mynster's religion and politics
  • Johan Ludvig Heiberg
  • H.L. Martensen
  • N.F.S. Grundtvig and history's flock: National popular culture in the service of religion
  • H.N. Clausen and Orla Lehmann: The liberal alternative to the golden age mainstream
  • The golden age and its alternatives
  • Part Two: Denmark's Kierkegaard
  • Soren Kierkegaard: Life and literary career to February 1846
  • A literary review
  • Edifying discourses in various spirits
  • Works of love
  • The crisis and a crisis in the life of an actress
  • Two minor ethico-religious essays
  • Christian discourses
  • The sickness unto death
  • Training in Christianity
  • Autobiographical pieces, "two notes" concerning "the individual," and the "open letter" to Dr. Rudelbach
  • Two series of discourses "recommended to the present age"
  • The attack on Christendom
  • Epilogue: The response to the attack on Christendom.

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