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Author Korsgaard, Ove, author

Title N.F.S. Grundtvig : as a political thinker / Ove Korsgaard ; translated by Edward Broadbridge
Published Copenhagen, Denmark : DJØF Publishing, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (138 pages)
Contents N.F.S. Grundtvig; Contents; Editorial preface; Part I; CHAPTER 1 Grundtvig's influence and relevance; Grundtvig's life -- A brief biography; 'In all parliamentary matters I think of the English'; CHAPTER 2 From the age of the estates to the age of the people; The people versus democracy; 'From caste system to equality in all civil relations'; Grundtvig's contract theory; CHAPTER 3 Nation and people: An imagined community; 'Democracy' as a term of abuse; 'People' as a watchword; CHAPTER 4 Grundtvig's concept of freedom; Religious freedom, freedom of conscience; Civil freedom
Personal freedom, bodily freedomFreedom of competition; CHAPTER 5 From united monarchy to national state; German unification -- a threat; Elite democracy -- a threat; CHAPTER 6 Constitutionalism versus common law; CHAPTER 7 Grundtvig's importance as a political thinker; Should Loki have the same freedom as Thor?; Grundtvig's importance for political science; Grundtvig's importance for politicians; Grundtvig as a historical person and as a legend; PART II; CHAPTER 8 Nordic Mythology or Symbolic language developed and illuminated from a historical-poetic perspective (1832)
Rhymed letter to our Nordic next-of-kinCHAPTER 9 Within Living Memory (1838); Lectures on the history of the last half-century 1788-1838; On Freedom, 2 July 1838; On Germany and the German Spirit, 26 October 1838; CHAPTER 10 Speech to the Schleswig Aid Society; 14 March 1848; CHAPTER 11 Parliamentary speeches; Speech to the Upper House (landstinget), 12 July 1866; 16 July 1866; Biography; Bibliography
Summary N.F.S. Grundtvig remains the most cited person in political debates in Denmark for the last 150 years. Even though Grundtvig is not that well-known internationally as a political thinker (his educational writings have attracted far greater attention), he is rightly regarded as the single individual who has had the greatest importance in the formation of the Danish nation. This book presents a biography of Grundtvig and an analysis of his contribution to political science. The author scrutinizes the life and thoughts of democracy, equality and the people of Grundtvig and thus how his notion of f
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 26, 2014)
Subject Grundtvig, N. F. S. (Nicolai Frederik Severin), 1783-1872
SUBJECT Grundtvig, N. F. S. (Nicolai Frederik Severin), 1783-1872 fast
Subject Democracy.
Democracy
Form Electronic book
Author Broadbridge, Edward, translator
ISBN 9788757497090
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