This is the third volume 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 the Golden Age culture.
This third tome covers the most exciting and dynamic time in the Danish Hegel reception from 1842 to 1855. This heterogeneous period saw the emergence of several new figures, many of whom were associated with the left-Hegelian school. This period is best known for the publication of the pseudonymous works of Sųren Kierkegaard. The present tome places these famous works in the context of other contemporary Danish discussions about Hegels philosophy. It shows that many of Kierkegaards criticisms had been raised by other Danish thinkers before him and that a large part of his polemical campaign was aimed at the leading figures of the previous periods of the Danish Hegel reception, namely, Johan Ludvig Heiberg and Hans Martensen.
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction: The Left-Hegelian Period of the Danish Hegel Reception
I The Shift to the New Period
II Theses of the Present Tome
1 The Straussian Threat: 1842
I Brųchners Translation of Strauss and Its Review
II Adlers Review of Nielsens Speculative Logic
III The Danish Translation of Werders Logic
IV Stillings Philosophical Observations
V Schierns On the Development and Present Standpoint of History Writing
VI Martensens The Present Religious Crisis
VII Mynsters Resumption of the Debate about Mediation
VIII Hagens How Is Intelligence Displayed?
IX Hagens Review of Stillings Philosophical Considerations
X The Parody, Johan Ludvig Heiberg after Death
XI Becks Review of Kierkegaards The Concept of Irony
XII Becks The Concept of Myth
XIII Kierkegaards Public Confession
XIV Adlers Hegelian Logic
A Adlers Introduction
B Adlers Account of Being
C Adlers Account of Essence
XV Heibergs The People and the Public and Thomsens Response
XVI Scharlings The Struggle against Christianity in the Most Recent Time
XVII Nielsens King and Constitution
XVIII The Criticism of Nielsen in The Philosophical Politician
XIX Heibergs The Starry Sky
XX Another Criticism of Martensen
XXI Heibergs Review of Dina
XXII Bornemanns Lectures on the History of the More Recent Philosophy of
Right
XXIII Parts Three and Four of Nielsens Speculative Logic
2 The Beginning of Kierkegaards Pseudonymous Authorship: 1843
I Stillings Review of Martensens Outline to a System of Moral Philosophy
II Becks Review of Nielsens Treatise on the Speculative Methods Treatment
of Sacred History
III The Review of Mųllers Posthumous Writings
IV Ludvig Helwegs Article On Faith and Knowledge
V Hagens Critical Response to Helweg
VI Helwegs Rejoinder to Hagens Criticisms
VII Kierkegaards Either/Or
A Hegelian Mediation
B The Inner and the Outer
C The Use of Hegels Criteria for Art
D The Use of Hegels View of Antigone
E The Use of Hegels Unhappy Consciousness
VIII Heibergs Literary Winter Crops and Kierkegaards Response
IX The Discussion in Fędrelandet and Dagen about the Prussian Censorship of
Marheineke
X Heibergs Lyric Poetry
XI Heibergs A Contribution to a Philosophy of the Visible
XII Hagens Review of Either/Or
XIII Brųchners Some Remarks on Baptism
XIV P.L. Mųllers Arena: A Polemical-Aesthetic Journal
XV Friedrich Helwegs Review of Adlers Logic
XVI Adlers Anti-Hegelian Revelation
XVII Heibergs On the Principle of the Beginning of History
XVIII Kierkegaards Johannes Climacus, or De omnibus dubitandum est
XIX Kierkegaards Repetition
XX Kierkegaards Fear and Trembling
XXI Thomsens On Modern French Poetry
XXII Sibberns On the Concept, Nature and Essence of Philosophy
XXIII Nielsens Lecture Paragraphs on the Philosophy of Church History
XXIV Winthers Article on the Doctrine of Justification in the New
Testament
XXV Becks Article on Hegels Concept of the Church
3 The Conflict Surrounding Stillings Criticism of the Left Hegelians: 1844
I Mynsters Church Polemic
II Clausens Development of the Main Christian Doctrines
III Heibergs The Astronomical Year
IV Friedrich Helwegs The Sign of Jonah and the Brazen Serpent
V Hagens Review of Fear and Trembling
VI The Article The German Press in Paris
VII Eirķkssons On the Baptists and Child Baptism
VIII Stillings Modern Atheism or the so-called Neo-Hegelianisms
Consequences of Hegelian Philosophy
A Modern Science in Relation to Hegels Philosophy
B The Criticism of the Left Hegelians
C The Dissolution of Atheism in the Future
IX The Critical Responses to Stillings Modern Atheism
A The Beginning of the Debate: Gammeltofts On Academic Affairs
B Christens Another Word about the Masters Defense
C Schiųdtes Mr. Christens Word about the Masters Defense
D Hagens Defense of Stilling
E Christens Responses to Schiųdte and Hagen
F Frederik Wilhelm Andersens Review of Stillings Modern Atheism
X Kierkegaards Philosophical Fragments
A The Absolute Paradox as a Response to Meditation
B Christianity and History
XI Kierkegaards The Concept of Anxiety
A The Confusion of Logic and Actuality
B Movement in Logic and the Leap
XII Kierkegaards Prefaces
A Preface VII: A Satirical Account of Mediation
B Preface VIII: A Demand for an Explanation of Hegels Philosophy
4 The Debates about Feuerbach: 1845
I Stillings Stay in Berlin
II Christens A Parallel between Two of the Recent Ages Philosophers
III Nielsens Propaedeutic Logic
IV Weis On the State and Its Individual: Introduction to Jurisprudence
V Thomsens On Lord Byron
VI Kierkegaards Stages on Lifes Way
VII Becks Review of Kierkegaards Philosophical Fragments
VIII Hagens Marriage Regarded from an Ethical-Historical Point of View
IX Brųchners On the Condition of the Jewish People in the Persian Period
X The Satirical Article, The Psychological Condition of the Potatoes during
the Sick Period
5 The Culmination of Kierkegaards Campaign against the Hegelians: 1846
I Kierkegaards Concluding Unscientific Postscript
A Subjective Faith and Speculative Philosophy
B Christianity as a Form of Knowing
C The System and Existence
D Speculative Philosophys Presuppositionless Beginning
E The Unity of Being and Thought
F The Sublation of the Law of Excluded Middle
G The Lack of Ethics in Hegels System
II Kierkegaards A Literary Review and Hegelian Mediation
III Brųchners Stay in Berlin
IV Sibberns Speculative Cosmology
V Zeuthens Humanity Regarded from the Christian Standpoint
VI Kierkegaards The Book on Adler
A Adlers Hegelianism and Christianity
B Adlers Dramatic Break with Hegelianism
C Adler and the Lack of Ethics in Hegel
VII Eirķkssons Faith, Superstition and Unbelief
VIII The Critical Review of Eirķkssons Faith, Superstition, and Unbelief
IX Eirķkssons Dr. Martensens Published Moral Paragraphs
6 The Rejection of Becks Application for the Priesthood: 184748
I Becks Conflict with the Danish State Church
II Hegel in Kierkegaards NB Journals
III Varbergs Assessment of the State of Philosophy in Denmark
IV Steenstrups The Study of Theology
7 The Beginning of the Debate about Faith and Knowledge: 1849
I Mynsters On Memory
II Nielsens Gospel Faith and the Modern Consciousness
III Martensens Christian Dogmatics
IV Kierkegaards The Sickness unto Death
A Anti-Climacus Dialectical Methodology
B The Attempt of Speculative Dogmatics to Comprehend Sin and Socratic
Ignorance
C The Individual and the Race
V Nielsens Comparison of Johannes Climacus with Martensen
VI Magnśs Eirķkssons Speculative Orthodoxy
VII Bornemanns On the Significance of Protestant Theology
VIII P.C. Kierkegaards Speech at the Clerical Conference of Roskilde
IX Stillings On the Imagined Reconciliation of Faith and Knowledge
8 The Continuation of the Debate about Faith and Knowledge: 1850
I Paludan-Müllers Work on Martensens Christian Dogmatics
II Scharlings Review of Martensens Christian Dogmatics
III Ludvig Helwegs Prof. Martensens Dogmatics and Its Critics
IV Eirķkssons Is Faith a Paradox?
V Nielsens The Faith of the Gospels and Theology
VI Nielsens and Stillings Responses to Scharlings Review
VII Martensens Dogmatic Elucidations
VIII Kierkegaards Practice in Christianity
IX The Debate between Dampe and Varberg on Religion
X Nielsens Renewed Criticism of Martensens Dogmatic Elucidations
9 Hegel at the End of the Golden Age: 185155
I Varbergs Conflict between Ųrsted and Mynster
II Hagens Studies in the History of Religion
III Bojesens Translation of Aristotles Politics
IV Stillings Account of Research in Religion and Science
V Steenstrups Philosophy of History
VI Sibberns Book Review and the Question of Actuality in Hegel
VII Friedrich Helwegs Comparison of Adler and Kierkegaard
VIII Friedrich Helwegs Article on Danish Hegelianism
IX The End of the Golden Age
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.
