A Vexing Gadfly

The Late Kierkegaard on Economic Matters

von Eliseo Pérez-Álvarez

238 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: James Clarke
• ISBN: 9780227173718
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.10.2011
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd