How can
anyone be considered apolitical when his earliest writing was a polemic against
women's liberation? Could he be depicted as a nineteenth century misogynist or
is his intuition well-founded for the ages? In “Another Defense of Woman's
Great Abilities”, using the pseudonym “A”, Kierkegaard “paints
exaggerated pictures of transformations that, in his opinion, are likely to
occur in the wake of female liberation. He resorts to ridicule […] and pokes fun
at the woman presumptuous enough to cross the boundaries naturally allotted to
her sex”.
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