Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations of Primary Texts
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Kierkegaard and Danish Hegelianism
- 2 Traces of Hegel in From the Papers of One Still Living and the Early Works
- 3 The Ironic Thesis and Hegel's Presence in The Concept of Irony
- 4 Hegel's Aufhebung and Kierkegaard's Either/Or
- 5 Kierkegaard's Polemic with Martensen in Johannes Climacus, or De omnibus dubitandum est
- 6 Kierkegaard's Repetition and Hegel's Dialectical Mediation
- 7 Hegel's View of Moral Conscience and Kierkegaard's Interpretation of Abraham
- 8 Martensen's Doctrine of Immanence and Kierkegaard's Transcendence in the Philosophical Fragments
- 9 The Dispute with Adler in The Concept of Anxiety
- 10 The Polemic with Heiberg in Prefaces
- 11 Subjective and Objective Thinking: Hegel in the Concluding Unscientific Postscript
- 12 Adler's Confusions and the Results of Hegel's Philosophy
- 13 Kierkegaard's Phenomenology of Despair in The Sickness unto Death
- 14 Kierkegaard and the Development of Nineteenth-Century Continental Philosophy: Conclusions, Reflections, and Reevaluations
- Foreign Language Summaries
- Bibliographies
- Subject Index
- Index of Persons
1 - Kierkegaard and Danish Hegelianism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations of Primary Texts
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Kierkegaard and Danish Hegelianism
- 2 Traces of Hegel in From the Papers of One Still Living and the Early Works
- 3 The Ironic Thesis and Hegel's Presence in The Concept of Irony
- 4 Hegel's Aufhebung and Kierkegaard's Either/Or
- 5 Kierkegaard's Polemic with Martensen in Johannes Climacus, or De omnibus dubitandum est
- 6 Kierkegaard's Repetition and Hegel's Dialectical Mediation
- 7 Hegel's View of Moral Conscience and Kierkegaard's Interpretation of Abraham
- 8 Martensen's Doctrine of Immanence and Kierkegaard's Transcendence in the Philosophical Fragments
- 9 The Dispute with Adler in The Concept of Anxiety
- 10 The Polemic with Heiberg in Prefaces
- 11 Subjective and Objective Thinking: Hegel in the Concluding Unscientific Postscript
- 12 Adler's Confusions and the Results of Hegel's Philosophy
- 13 Kierkegaard's Phenomenology of Despair in The Sickness unto Death
- 14 Kierkegaard and the Development of Nineteenth-Century Continental Philosophy: Conclusions, Reflections, and Reevaluations
- Foreign Language Summaries
- Bibliographies
- Subject Index
- Index of Persons
Summary
Before I turn to an examination of Kierkegaard's texts, it will be useful to say something about the intellectual scene in Denmark during the first half of the nineteenth century and Hegel's influence on it. As was indicated in the Introduction, due to the enormous mass of material it is impossible in the context of this investigation to give a detailed account of the history of Hegelianism in Denmark. Nonetheless, it will be useful here at the outset to discuss briefly some of the most important figures involved in the discussion about Hegelianism during Kierkegaard's lifetime and to examine his contact with them and thus with Hegel's philosophy at one degree removed. Pursuant of this goal, I have dedicated the second and third sections of the present chapter to a brief review of the principal adherents and critics of Hegelianism in Denmark during the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s. It should be noted that my account can be nothing more than a cursory overview, appropriate only for the limited purposes of the present study. In addition to orienting the reader in Kierkegaard's historical context, my goal is to introduce the various personalities and their main works so that they will not be completely unfamiliar when I come, in the body of this study, to discuss them in an ad hoc fashion in connection with my analyses of Kierkegaard's texts.
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- Kierkegaard's Relations to Hegel Reconsidered , pp. 45 - 89Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003