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Building the Nation - N.F.S. Grundtvig and Danish National Identity (Hardcover)
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Building the Nation - N.F.S. Grundtvig and Danish National Identity (Hardcover)
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Denmark became a nation amidst the turbulence of the nineteenth
century, an era plagued by war, bankruptcy, and territorial loss.
Building the Nation is an insightful study of this formation,
emphasizing the crucial role of N.F.S. Grundtvig, the father of
modern Denmark. Persevering through years of humiliation, internal
conflict, and occupation, Denmark now boasts one of the world's
most stable and democratic political systems, as well as one of its
richest economies. From disaster to success, Building the Nation
emphasizes the role of national icons and social movements in the
formation of Denmark. The poet, political philosopher, clergyman,
and founding father N.F.S. Grundtvig is compared to Rousseau and
Durkheim in France, to Herder and Fichte in Germany, and to other
great thinkers in the United States and Ireland. During his
lifetime, the kingdom of Denmark transformed from monarchy to
democracy and moved from agrarianism to a modern economy -
evolutions to which Grundtvig himself contributed. He has become a
fundamental and inescapable reference-point for discussions about
nation, democracy, freedom, religion, and education in Denmark and
abroad. Situating Grundtvig in both the history of Denmark and the
intellectual history of nineteenth-century Europe, Building the
Nation argues for the centrality of his influence in the making of
modern Denmark, as well as the continuing influence of his work.
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