Thursday, May 15, 2014

‘SØREN KIERKEGAARD on POLITICS’


Caricature of Soeren Kierkegaard in Jewish periodical 'Corsaren'

In his war with the “Corsaren” Soeren Kierkegaard never forgot, that the nasty periodical was written by a Jew.
He had formed his opinion of the Jews already a long time before the conflict with Goldschmidt. But if he did not already care much for them, then of course his judgement became even harder after the acquaintance with the “Corsaren”.


Soeren Kierkegaards hostile attitude towards Jews can be explained; but one should not try to explain it away, as some Kierkegaard-researchers have tried to do. By trying to do that, one takes Soeren Kierkegaard out of the Copenhagen of Frederik the 6th and Christian the 8th, where he belongs.
Excerpt from 'Søren Kierkegaard om politik' by Egelund Moeller ...

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