ABSTRACT
During the past few decades, many commentators have focused increasing attention upon the socio-political implications of Kierkegaard’s thought.1 In his magisterial book, Kierkegaard in Golden Age Denmark, Bruce Kirmmse writes,
Kierkegaard’s social and political views are often interpreted as being those which were shared by his Golden Age contemporaries, and he is thus depicted as having no politics at all, or, what amounts to the same thing, as having embraced a nostalgic, traditionalist, and irrational authoritarianism, a misty reverence for hierarchy and monarchy which was completely irrelevant to the emerging social and economic realities of his time.2
