This is the first of a three-volume work dedicated to exploring the influence of G.W.F. Hegels philosophical thinking in Golden Age Denmark. The work demonstrates that the largely overlooked tradition of Danish Hegelianism played a profound and indeed constitutive role in many spheres of Golden Age culture.
This initial tome covers the period from the beginning of the Hegel reception in the Danish Kingdom in the 1820s until the end of 1836. The dominant figure from this period is the poet and critic Johan Ludvig Heiberg, who attended Hegels lectures in Berlin in 1824 and then launched a campaign to popularize Hegels philosophy among his fellow countrymen. Using his journal Kjųbenhavns flyvende Post as a platform, Heiberg published numerous articles containing ideas that he had borrowed from Hegel. Several readers felt provoked by Heibergs Hegelianism and wrote critical responses to him, many of which appeared in Kjųbenhavnsposten, the rival of Heibergs journal. Through these debates Hegels philosophy became an important part of Danish cultural life.
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction: Hegel and Hegelianism
I Hegels Berlin Period: 18181831
II The Development of so-called Right and Left Hegelianism
III Danish Hegelianism
IV Thesis and Methodology of the Present Study
1 The Earliest Danish Encounters with Hegels Philosophy : Before 1824
I Baggesens Possible Encounter with Hegel in 1794
II Johan Erik von Bergers Relation to Hegel from circa 1797
III Steffens Relation to Hegel from 1801
IV Oehlenschlägers Encounter with Hegel in Jena in 1806
V Sibberns Journey to Prussia and the German States from 18111813
VI Hans Christian Ųrsteds Encounter with Hegel in 1812
VII Clausens Stay in Berlin: 18181819
VIII Peder Hjorts Visit to Berlin in 1821
IX Krarups Visit to Berlin: 18211822
X Sibberns On Knowledge and Enquiry
XI Sibberns Elements of Logic
XII The Announcement about Hegels Student, Franz Mavros
XIII Rudelbachs Visit to Berlin
2 Heiberg and the Howitz Controversy: 1824
I Heibergs Trip to Berlin and His Hegelian Conversion
II Howitzs Article On Madness and Ascribing Responsibility
III Anders Sandųe Ųrsteds Response to Howitz
IV Mynsters Response to Howitz
V Sibberns Response to Howitz
VI Howitzs Response to His Critics: Determinism, or Hume against Kant
VII Heibergs Hegelian Response: On Human Freedom
VIII The Reception of Heibergs On Human Freedom
IX Heibergs Outline of a System of Aesthetics as a Speculative Science
X Heibergs Flight from Kiel
3 Heibergs Return to Copenhagen: 18251826
I Heibergs Contingency Regarded from the Point of View of Logic
II Sibberns Review of Heibergs Treatise on Contingency
III Poul Martin Mųllers On the Development of Popular Ideas
IV Mynsters Article on the Law of Identity
V Heibergs Poem Life and Death
4 Heibergs Initial Attempts to Popularize Philosophy in Kjųbenhavns flyvende
Post: 1827
I Heibergs Article, Confessions of an English Opium Eater
II Heibergs On Solger
III Heibergs A Letter Found on the Street
IV Heibergs Nemesis Essay
V Zeuthens Visit to Berlin
VI Heibergs On the Materialist and Idealist Principle in Language
VII Heibergs Review of Lucubrations of a Prisoner of the State
VIII Heibergs A Letter from Baggesen
IX Heibergs On Tegnérs Frithiof
5 Heibergs Attempt to Develop a Hegelian System of Aesthetics in Kjųbenhavns
flyvende Post: 1828
I Heibergs Taxonomy of Poetic Forms in His Polemic with Oehlenschläger
II Peder Hjorts Response to Heibergs Criticism of Oehlenschläger
III Heibergs Taxonomy of Natural Beauty in On Beauty in Nature
IV Kjųbenhavnspostens Response to Heibergs Criticism of Jacob Baden
V Heibergs Development of Dramatic Character
VI Kjųbenhavnspostens On Occasion of Flyvende posts No. 42
VII A Brief Article in Kjųbenhavnsposten, Hegels Philosophy
VIII Heibergs Cousins Visits at Goethes
IX Heibergs Account of the Bad Infinity in A few Words about the
Infinite
6 Sibberns Philosophical Archive and Collection and the Resumption of the
Flyvende Post: 18291830
I Peter Christian Kierkegaards Stay in Berlin
II Sibberns On Abstraction and Abstract Analysis
III Sibberns On Intellectual Intuition
IV Heibergs Poetical Letter to the Magic Lantern Double in Sorų
V Heibergs Review, Bretschneiders Defense of Rationalism
VI Lorenzens Review of Heises Plato Edition
VII Heibergs Discussion of the Correspondence between Goethe and Schiller
7 Heibergs Promulgation of Hegelianism at the Royal Military College:
18311832
I Heibergs Overview of the Danish belles lettres
II Zeuthens Something about Philosophy and its Cultivation
III Zeuthens for Aesthetics and Philosophy
IV Hegels Death and the Speculation about His Successor
V Zeuthens On the Moral Independence of Man
VI Heibergs Speculative Logic
VII The Critical Reception of Heibergs Speculative Logic
8 The Debate about Heibergs On the Significance of Philosophy for the
Present Age: 1833
I Zeuthens On the Idea of Modesty
II The Article Hegel and Steffens
III Heibergs On the Significance of Philosophy for the Present Age
IV Zeuthens Elucidations and Heibergs Response
V Mynsters On Religious Conviction
VI The Review of On the Significance of Philosophy in Kjųbenhavnsposten
VII Trydes Review of On the Significance of Philosophy
VIII Heibergs Response
IX Trydes Rejoinder
X Mųllers Lectures on the History of Ancient Philosophy
XI Zeuthens Second Journey
9 The Resumption of Heibergs Flyvende Post: 18341835
I Heibergs Symbolism
II The Satirical Article, Excerpts from Gumbas Posthumous Manuscripts
III Heibergs Letters to a Village Pastor
IV Heibergs Introductory Lecture to the Logic Course
V Mųllers Review of Sibberns On Poetry and Art
10 The End of an Era: 1836
I Mųllers Review of The Extremes
II Weis Some Remarks on the Philosophy of Law and Positive Law
III Peder Hjorts From a New Letter from the Provinces
IV Kierkegaard and the Satirical Drama: The Collegium Politicum of the
Flyvende Post
V Martensens Journey Abroad
VI Heiberg and Martensen in Paris
VII Sibberns Criticism of Hegels Account of Socrates
VIII A Response to Sibberns Criticism of Hegels Account of Socrates
IX The Transition to the Next Period of the Hegel Reception in Denmark
Bibliography
I Secondary Sources on the Danish Hegel Reception
II Primary Texts and Sources Used
III Secondary Literature and Material Used
Index of Persons
Subject Index
Jon Stewart is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He has worked for many years in the field of nineteenth-century Continental philosophy with a specialization in Hegel and Kierkegaard.
