Kierkegaard and his contemporaries : the culture of golden age Denmark / edited by Jon Stewart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stewart, Jon (Jon Bartley)

Series:

Kierkegaard studies. Monograph series ; 10.

Kierkegaard studies. Monograph series ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophers--Denmark--Biography.

Philosophers.

Theologians--Denmark--Biography.

Theologians.

Kierkegaard, Sren, 1813-1855.

Kierkegaard, Sren.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (456 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Interpreting Kierkegaard in the general context of Golden Age Denmark, this interdisciplinary anthology features articles which treat his various relations to his most famous Danish contemporaries. It aims to see them not as minor figures laboring in Kierkegaard's shadow but rather as significant thinkers and artists in their own right. The articles illuminate both Kierkegaard's influence on his contemporaries and their varied influences on him. By means of the analyses of these various relations, aspects of Kierkegaard's authorship are brought into new and insightful perspectives. The feature

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction

I. Philosophy

F.C. Sibbern: Epistemology as Ontology

Poul Martin Møller: Scattered Thoughts, Analysis of Affectation, Struggle with Nihilism

H.C. rsted: Immanuel Kant and the Thought Experiment

Kierkegaard s Contribution to the Danish Discussion of "Irony"

Kierkegaard and Hegelianism in Golden Age Denmark

II. Theology

The Golden Age in an Earthen Vessel:The Life and Times of Bishop J.P. Mynster

H.L. Martensen's Theological Anthropology

Martensen's Dogmatics and its Reception

Grundtvig and Romanticism

III. Literature

Adam Oehlenschläger's Erik and Roller and Danish Romanticism

The Tragic Moment in Oehlenschläger's Hakon Earl the Mighty

"Reason in Imagination is Beauty": Ørsted's Acoustics and Andersen's "The Bell"

Thomasine Gyllembourg's Two Ages and her Portrayal of Everyday Life

IV. Literary and Dramatic Criticism

Kierkegaard: A Literary Approach

Søren Kierkegaard: A Theater Critic of the Heiberg School

Towards Transparency: Søren Kierkegaard on Danish Actresses

Johan Ludvig Heiberg and his Audience in Nineteenth-Century Denmark

P.L. Møller and Romanticism in Danish Literature

V. Art

Thorvaldsen: An Introduction to his Work

Golden Tears: Johan Thomas Lundbye and Søren Kierkegaard

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612195211

9781282195219

1282195212

9783110200881

3110200880

OCLC:

191926261