Søren Kierkegaard

Title
Søren Kierkegaard
Publication Date
2009
Author(s)
McDonald, William
Editor
Editor(s): Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Acumen
Place of publication
Durham, United Kingdom
Edition
1
UNE publication id
une:5724
Abstract
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55) was born into the Danish Golden Age, the remarkable cultural flourishing that occurred in Denmark in the first half of the nineteenth century. Between about 1780 and 1850 Denmank's economy changed from feudal agrarian to predominantly mercantile and capitalist, with radical social consequences (Kirmmse 1990: 9-26). The population became largely urban; education transformed peasants into potential participants in democracy; newspapers and feuilleton literature burgeoned; artistic and scientific experimentation abounded; the fixed class structure of feudalism softened to enable greater social mobility; and the authority of religion was weakened under assaults from philosophical reason, bourgeois complacency, mass communication and new forms of aesthetic diversion (Pattison 2002: chs 1-4).
Link
Citation
The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, v.4: Nineteenth-century philosophy of religion, p. 175-186
ISBN
1844652238
1844651819
9781844651818
9781844652235
Start page
175
End page
186

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