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A thought-provoking study of Søren Kierkegaard's less well known writings on economic and political affairs, analysed from a theological perspective.
This essay on Søren Kierkegaard and economic matters from a theological perspective is well grounded in the Dane's journals. In these writings, the late nineteenth-century thinker shows his solidarity with rural residents (90 percent of the population) and urbanite menial workers. Topics include the option for the poor; the ideology of impotence; the denouncing of a competitive society; the correlation of wealth and poverty; media, church, university, and theatre as social institutions shaping reality; Christendom; and the retribution doctrine.
This essay on Søren Kierkegaard and economic matters from a theological perspective is well grounded in the Dane's journals. In these writings, the late nineteenth-century thinker shows his solidarity with rural residents (90 percent of the population) and urbanite menial workers. Topics include the option for the poor; the ideology of impotence; the denouncing of a competitive society; the correlation of wealth and poverty; media, church, university, and theatre as social institutions shaping reality; Christendom; and the retribution doctrine.
Price: $29.99
Pages: 236
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: James Clarke
Publication Date:
27 October 2011
Trim Size: 9.02 X 5.98 in
ISBN: 9780227173718
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
RELIGION / Christian Theology / Systematic, Christianity, Theology
'Perez-Alvarez has made a significant contribution to Kierkegaardian scholarship, if for no other reason to spur us on to read the other 'hand' of Kierkegaard's incisive writings.'
— Eric Austin Lee, University of Nottingham in: The Heythrop Journal, Vol. 53 (1), January 2012
Against the image of Kierkegaard as a bourgeois intellectual of independent means and idiosyncratic tastes, Pérez-Álvarez portrays a man passionate about the poor, allying himself with the ordinary man, and scathing in his attack on wealth and privilege. (...) Pérez-Álvarez argues that Kierkegaard moved from a position of conventional conservatism, through a transitional period of increasing interest in economic affairs, and on to a final, thoroughgoing radicalisation of his socio-economic rhetoric. (...) it is an important contribution to Kierkegaardian scholarship, and will challenge many students of the melancholy Dane to think again.
— The Rt Revd Dr Saxbee
... Although Kierkegaard's ceaseless emphases upon subjectivity and individual decision cannot be ignored, Pérez-Álvarez has done a good job here of highlighting that there is far more to Kierkegaard's social perspective than previously thought... [...] It would be easy, in a book such as this, to sideline Kierkegaard's theology as though the economic issues were his primary driving-force. Commendably, Pérez-Álvarez maintains that Kierkegaard's theology was central but that the economic and social conditions around him proved to be more than just a footnote to his thought...
— Aaron Edwards
With this work, Eliseo-Pérez-Álvarez has occupied an empty nook in Kierkegaard studies.
— Bruce P. Baugus
— Eric Austin Lee, University of Nottingham in: The Heythrop Journal, Vol. 53 (1), January 2012
Against the image of Kierkegaard as a bourgeois intellectual of independent means and idiosyncratic tastes, Pérez-Álvarez portrays a man passionate about the poor, allying himself with the ordinary man, and scathing in his attack on wealth and privilege. (...) Pérez-Álvarez argues that Kierkegaard moved from a position of conventional conservatism, through a transitional period of increasing interest in economic affairs, and on to a final, thoroughgoing radicalisation of his socio-economic rhetoric. (...) it is an important contribution to Kierkegaardian scholarship, and will challenge many students of the melancholy Dane to think again.
— The Rt Revd Dr Saxbee
... Although Kierkegaard's ceaseless emphases upon subjectivity and individual decision cannot be ignored, Pérez-Álvarez has done a good job here of highlighting that there is far more to Kierkegaard's social perspective than previously thought... [...] It would be easy, in a book such as this, to sideline Kierkegaard's theology as though the economic issues were his primary driving-force. Commendably, Pérez-Álvarez maintains that Kierkegaard's theology was central but that the economic and social conditions around him proved to be more than just a footnote to his thought...
— Aaron Edwards
With this work, Eliseo-Pérez-Álvarez has occupied an empty nook in Kierkegaard studies.
— Bruce P. Baugus
Foreword
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Golden Age Denmark
2. Kierkegaard on Economic Issues: Years of Transition, 1846-1852
3. Kierkegaard on Economic Issues: The Radical Final Years, 1852-1855
Conclusion
Appendix A: Denmark's Geopolitics
Appendix B: Journals and Papers: Some Untranslated Kierkegaardian Material
Appendix C: Papirer X 3 A 135 n.d., 1850
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Golden Age Denmark
2. Kierkegaard on Economic Issues: Years of Transition, 1846-1852
3. Kierkegaard on Economic Issues: The Radical Final Years, 1852-1855
Conclusion
Appendix A: Denmark's Geopolitics
Appendix B: Journals and Papers: Some Untranslated Kierkegaardian Material
Appendix C: Papirer X 3 A 135 n.d., 1850
Bibliography