Eliseo Pérez-Álvarez 
A Vexing Gadfly [EPUB ebook] 
The Late Kierkegaard on Economic Matters

This essay on Soren 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 theater as social institutions shaping reality; Christendom; and the retribution doctrine.
A Vexing Gadfly develops the theological themes within the timeframe of ‘Golden Age Denmark’ (1800-1860), which includes the period of Denmark’s colonial activities. The historical approach adds flesh to the bones of abstract thought and ahistorical doctrines.
Contrary to common belief, Kierkegaard did articulate economic issues through structural categories such as the age, the pyramid, the building, the external revolution, ‘the Fire Chief, ‘ and his diagnosis of society. Ironically, the domestication of Kierkegaard’s economic thought took place from the time of his death on November 11, 1855. His eulogy took place at the most important church of the country, the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen; his burial at Assistens Cemetery was with full pomp; and by 1971, his statue joined the select club of Mynster, Martensen, Grundvigt, et al., as they surround the wealthy Marble Church.

Despre autor

Enrique Dussel earned his doctorate in philosophy in Madrid and in history at the Sorbonne. He studied church history under Lortz in Mainz and lived for two years with Paul Gauthier in Israel. Dussel lives in Mexico City where he is Professor of Ethics at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana and Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.