This is the second volume in 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 the Golden Age culture.
This second tome treats the most intensive period in the history of the Danish Hegel reception, namely, the years from 1837 to 1841. The main figure in this period is the theologian Hans Martensen who made Hegels philosophy a sensation among the students at the University of Copenhagen in the late 1830s. This period also includes the publication of Johan Ludvig Heibergs Hegelian journal, Perseus, and Frederik Christian Sibberns monumental review of it, which represented the most extensive treatment of Hegels philosophy in the Danish language at the time. During this period Hegels philosophy flourished in unlikely genres such as drama and lyric poetry. During these years Hegelianism enjoyed an unprecedented success in Denmark until it gradually began to be perceived as a dangerous trend.
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction: The Martensen Period of Danish Hegelianism
I The Break with the Initial Period
II Theses of the Present Tome
1 Martensens Breakthrough: 1837
I Martensens Review of Heibergs Introductory Lecture to the Logic Course
II Mųllers Article on Immortality
III Heibergs Conflict with the Maanedsskrift for Litteratur
IV Heibergs First Volume of Perseus
A Heibergs To the Readers
B Heibergs Review of Rothe
C Martensens Essay on Faust
V The First Review of Perseus
VI Martensens On the Autonomy of Human Self-Consciousness
VII Mųllers Ontology or the System of Categories
VIII Martensens Lectures, Speculative Dogmatics in Winter Semester
183738
2 Sibberns Critical Response to Heibergs Hegelianism: 1838
I Heibergs Speculative Drama, Fata Morgana
II Martensens Review of Fata Morgana
III Kierkegaards The Conflict between the Old and the New Soap-Cellars
IV Sibberns Review of the First Volume of Perseus
A Sibberns Introduction
B Article I: Sibberns Critique of Hegels Account of the Beginning of
Philosophy
C Article ii: Sibberns Critique of Hegels Treatment of the Laws of Logic
D Article III: Sibberns Critique of Hegels Triads and Doctrine of the
Trinity
E Article IV: Sibberns Critique of Heibergs Assessment of Danish
Philosophy
F The Rest of the Review
V Martensens Lectures on Speculative Dogmatics in Summer Semester 1838
VI Wiborgs Pseudo-Hegelian Aesthetics
VII Grundtvigs Criticism of Hegel in His Lectures, The Memory of Man
VIII The Second Volume of Heibergs Perseus
A Heibergs The System of Logic
B Carl Weis On the Historical Development of the State
C Heibergs On Painting in its Relation to the Other Fine Arts
D The End of Heibergs Perseus
IX Kierkegaards From the Papers of One Still Living
X A Review of the Second Issue of Heibergs Perseus
XI Martensens Lectures, The History of Modern Philosophy from Kant to
Hegel
XII Martensens Lectures, Speculative Dogmatics in Winter Semester
183839
3 The Debate about Mediation and the Law of Excluded Middle: 1839
I J.A. Bornemanns Review of Martensens Dissertation
II Mynsters Rationalism, Supernaturalism
III Heibergs Response to Mynster
IV Martensens Rationalism, Supernaturalism and the principium exclusi
medii
V Schiųdtes A few Words Concerning the Three so-called Laws of Logic
VI The Academic Reading Association
VII Bergs Outlines of a Philosophical Propaedeutic or Epistemology
VIII Monrads Flying Political Papers
IX F.C. Bornemanns Introductory Lecture on Jurisprudence
4 The Attack on Martensen and His Students Hegel Fever: 1840
I The Controversy Surrounding the Purported Arrogance of Martensen and His
Students
A The Attack on Martensen in Kjųbenhavnsposten
B Martensens Response: Philosophical Modesty in Kjųbenhavnsposten
C The Critics Response: Philosophical Self-Importance in Fędrelandet
D The Article An Attacker of Philosophy
E Martensens Statement
F The Final Contribution from Martensens Critic
G The Rest of the Debate
II Andersens Criticism of Kierkegaard as a Hegelian in A Comedy in the Open
Air
III Nielsens Treatise on the Speculative Methods Treatment of Sacred
History
IV Martensens Meister Eckhart
V Hagens Review of Martensens Meister Eckhart
VI Adlers Dissertation, The Isolated Subjectivity
VII Adlers Review of Heibergs The System of Logic
VIII Madvigs A Glance at Constitutions of Antiquity
IX A Polemic between Sibbern and Heiberg about Hegels Political Philosophy
X The Role of Hegel in the Overviews of Swedish Philosophical Literature in
Fędrelandet
XI The Controversy Surrounding Clausens Hermeneutics of the New Testament
A Clausens Criticism of Hegels Philosophy
B Adlers Response: Professor Clausens Judgment of the Hegelian
Philosophy
C Hagens Review of Clausens Hermeneutics of the New Testament
XII Molbechs Philosophy of History
5 Kierkegaards Hegelian Masters Thesis: 1841
I Heibergs New Poems
A Divine Service: A Hegelian Philosophy of Religion
B A Soul after Death: A Hegelian Satire
C Protestantism in Nature
II Martensens Review of Heibergs New Poems
III Trydes Review of New Poems
IV The Pseudo-Grundtvigs Open Letter against the German Heretics
V A Hegelian Complaint about the Journal for Foreign Theological Literature
VI The Anonymous Article Mynster and the Hegelians
VII Martensens Outline to a System of Moral Philosophy
VIII Kierkegaards Hegelian Philosophy of History: The Concept of Irony
A Kierkegaards Methodological Remarks: The Introduction
B Kierkegaards Account of the Dialectical Method in The View Made
Possible
C Hegels Account of Socrates Daimon in The Actualization of the View
D Hegels Account of Socrates vis-ą-vis the Sophists and the Other Greek
Schools in The View Made Necessary
E Hegels Account of Socrates as the Founder of Morality in Hegels View
of Socrates
F Hegel in the Introduction to Part Two
G Kierkegaards Critique of Hegels Account of Socratic Irony in The
World-Historical Validity of Irony
H Kierkegaards Use of Hegels Criticism of Romantic Irony in Irony after
Fichte
I Kierkegaards Solution: Controlled Irony
J The Hegelian Nature of the Text
IX Kattrups Translations
X Parts One and Two of Nielsens Speculative Logic
XI Kierkegaards Stay in Berlin
A Schellings Lectures
B Marheinekes Lectures
C Werders Lectures
D Kierkegaards Notes on Hegels Aesthetics
XII Brųchner and the Examination Scandal
XIII 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
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.
