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A Vexing Gadfly

SKU 9780227173718
Product Type: Paperback
Release Date: 27 October 2011
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This book focuses on Kierkegaard's later writings and journals, placing them within a socio-political and economic context that dispels the misconception that he had nothing to say on these issues. In these writings, the great nineteenth-century thinker shows his solidarity with rural residents (90 percent of the population at the time) and urbanite menial workers, and amongst the many themes and topics he addresses are: 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 theater as social institutions shaping reality; Christendom; and the retribution doctrine. Eliseo Pérez-Álvarez develops a theological analysis of Kierkegaard's socio-economic views within the timeframe of "Golden Age Denmark" (ca. 1800–1860), which includes the period of Denmark's colonial activities. This approach adds flesh to the bones of abstract thought and doctrine, providing a rich historical context in which Kierkegaard's thinking can be seen to connect with both the economic realities and the philosophical trends of his time. The author shows how Kierkegaard articulates his standpoint through such structural categories as the age, the pyramid, the building, the external revolution, "the Fire Chief", and his diagnosis of society. A Vexing Gadfly reveals a much under-appreciated side of Kierkegaard's thought, and will be invaluable to any student or scholar of the Danish theologian. However, it also focuses the reader's attention on contemporary concerns of how theology can address the economic and social disparities of the modern world.

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