The Common Good
N.F.S. Grundtvig as Politician and Contemporary Historian
Aarhus University Press
Published on 1. November 2019
400 pages
978-87-7184-866-3 (ISBN)
Description
Of the five books in the series N.F.S. Grundtvig. Works in English, this fourth volume on Grundtvig as a politician and contemporary historian is perhaps the most surprising. He is best known globally as the founding father of the 'People's High School', with his emphasis on lifelong learning and the living word in interactive conversation. In Denmark his next greatest achievement is his hymn-writing and song-writing. Few think of Grundtvig as a politician. In public discourse he is linked to Nordic mythology and church matters, rather than to parliamentary democracy or contemporary history. However, Grundtvig was a historian and a politician. His historical interests were the driving force of his entry into public politics, as is demonstrated by the texts in this volume.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Colophon
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Translator's Note
- Notes on Contributors
- Snapshot: The European Spring of 1848
- N. F. S. Grundtvig and his Time (Ove Korsgaard)
- I. Within Living Memory: Lectures On Contemporary History
- Revolution or Evolution (Ove Korsgaard)
- 1. Denmark, the Most Fortunate Land in the World
- 2. The Danish and the French Revolutions
- 3. The Reign of Terror in France
- 4. The English Attacks on Denmark
- 5. Denmark and the Congress of Vienna
- 6. Germany and the German Spirit
- 7. Europe's Voyages to America
- 8. The Struggle of the Modern Greeks
- 9. England as a Model
- 10. England's Industry and the Coming Revolution
- 11. The Steam Engine and Mjolnir
- 12. The Nordic Spirit in England
- 13. My Poetic Homecoming (extract)
- 14. The People's Council and the People's Voice
- II. Freedom and the People: Grundtvig's Political Views, 1830-48
- The Groundswell for Change (Ove Korsgaard)
- A) Forms of State and Governance
- 15. Political Observations on Rebellion, and on Denmark and Holstein (1831) - I & IV
- 16. The King and the People (1839)
- 17. Letter to Queen Caroline Amalie (1844)
- B) Freedom of Spirit and Body
- 18a. Elizabeth Fry and the Quakers (1841)
- 18b. George Fox and the Quakers (1845)
- 19. Religious Freedom and Bodily Freedom (1845)
- C) Freedom for Slaves
- 20. Haiti and the Negro Question (1838)
- 21a. Draft of Letter on Slavery (1839)
- 21b. Speech on Slavery to the Danish Society (1845, extract)
- 21c. Brief Interjection on Slavery in the Constitutional Assembly (1848)
- III. The Democratic Constitution And Other Questions: Grundtvig's Political Involvement, 1848-64
- From Monarchy to Democracy (Ove Korsgaard)
- A) The Constitution and the People
- 22. 'Of the people' is our watchword (1848)
- 23. On the Concept of 'Basic Law' and the State Constitution in Denmark (1848)
- 24. Why does N. F. S. Grundtvig want to be in Parliament? (1848)
- 25. Constitution Day 5th June (1854)
- B) The National Question
- 26. Speech to the Schleswig Aid Society (1848)
- 27. The Kingdom of Denmark and the Duchy of Schleswig or South Jutland (1848)
- 28a. Letter to Johan and Svend Grundtvig (1849)
- 28b. Letter to Johan Grundtvig (1850)
- 29. Parliamentary Speech on the Constitution (1855)
- 30. Parliamentary Speech on the Danish Border and Rødding People's High School (1857)
- C) The Peasant Farmers' Situation
- 31. A Time of Transition in Denmark (1849)
- 32. The Lords of the Manor and the Peasant Farmers (1849)
- D) The Women's Cause
- 33a. Clara Raphael (1851)
- 33b. Clara Raphael (1851), poem
- 33c. Speech to the Danish Society (extract)
- 33c. Speech to the Danish Society (1855, extract)
- IV. The War In 1864 And The Revision Of The Constitution: Grundtvig's Political Views And Involvement, 1864-72
- War Against Denmark (Ove Korsgaard)
- A) The Defeat to Germany
- 34. Letter of Consolation to Denmark (1864) - extract
- B) The Revision of the Constitution
- 35. Against the Proposed Constitutional Revision (1866)
- 36. For the General Franchise (1866)
- 37. Final Parliamentary Speech (1866)
- 38. Letter to the King requesting his Veto (1866)
- Grundtvig's Political Legacy (Ove Korsgaard)
- Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
- N. F. S. Grundtvig. Works in English
