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The Core of Learning presents the philosophical framework of N.F.S. Grundtvig's educational, poetic, theological, and political writings. In each of these fields he made a major contribution to the formation of modern Denmark. He situates humanity in the wider background of creation and nature, and in his alternative programme of enlightenment he focuses on the core and advance of Learning in the history of human civilization, and the role of emotions for all philosophical reflection.

As part of its agenda to digitalise and translate Grundtvig's vast output, the Grundtvig Study Centre at Aarhus University is pleased to publish this fifth volume in the series, 'N.F.S. Grundtvig: Works in English'. Volume 1, The School for Life (2011), contains Grundtvig's major writings on education, while Volume 2, Living Wellsprings (2015) contains a selection of his hymns, songs, and poems. Volume 3, Human Comes First (2018) contains articles and sermons relating to Grundtvig's Christian theology, and Volume 4, The Common Good (2019) deals with his historical and political ideas.

Recordings by the editor of all the introductions and texts are available free online at
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Table of Contents

1. Anthropology and Metaphysics - two long essays from 1817: On Human Beings in the World, and On Truth, Beauty, and Greatness. 2. Religion and Aesthetics - three essays, including an extract from On the Church, the State, and the School. 3. History and Signs - five essays on the relation between History, Experience, and Learning. 4. Language - an essay on the importance of Proverbs (the people's wisdom), and of using the Mother-Tongue (the language creating identity), including reflections on the role of emotions for all philosophical inquiry. 5. Youth - a late essay, Youth in Our Time (1850), and three brief welcome-speeches by Grundtvig at his own people's high school.

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