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The Danish Golden Age
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texts from golDen age Denmark
publisheD by museum tusculanum pressIn collaboration with
The Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre
University of Copenhagen
and other selected titles onphilosophy, religion, and artfrom 19th century Denmark
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On the Concept of Irony is a foundational text that established some of Kierkegaard’s most important ideas on the self. Soderquist shows how Kierkegaard’s concept of irony is crucial to understanding his pivotal thoughts on selfhood.
A special target of the polemics of Kierkegaard is the attempts of the Danish theologian Hans Lassen Martensen to bend the Hegelian philosophical method to his own theological purposes. Positivity and Dialectic traces Martensen’s theological method through four stages in the period which is pertinent for the study of Kierkegaard, the years 1833–1850.
followinG the cultuReD Public’s chosen oneCurtis L. Thompson
The case is here argued that Kierkegaard followed Martensen’s intellectual development very closely and that Martensen’s shifting theological agenda in fact notably shaped the evolving agenda of Kierkegaard’s own developing religious thought.
Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1791–1860) was a leading cultural figure of the Golden Age. This volume is a collection of articles dedicated to illustrating as many different dimensions of Johan Ludvig Heiberg’s thought and intellectual activity as possible.
a histoRy of heGelianism in GolDen aGe DenmaRk (tome i–iii)Jon Stewart
While Kierkegaard’s polemic with the Danish Hegelians is a wellknown part of his philosophical agenda, the actual texts and ideas of these thinkers have received little attention in their own right. This work demonstrates that this largely overlooked tradition of Hegel reception played a profound and indeed constitutive role in many aspects of Golden Age culture and brought into its orbit most of the main figures from the period.
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Jon StewartA History of Hegelianism in Golden Age Denmark
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Johan Ludvig Heiberg is the most famous theater critic of the Danish Golden Age. But, as the articles in this volume show, Heiberg’s lifelong occupation with theater was closely tied to his farreaching philosophical and political interests.
Offering a panorama of personalities, literary texts, theater performances, artworks, and sociopolitical debates, Women of the Danish Golden Age is a rich appreciation of the importance of women to Denmark’s cultural life during one of its most flourishing periods.
hans lassen maRtensen: theoloGian, PhilosoPheR anD social cRiticJon Stewart (ed.)
It is unfortunate that to international research Hans Lassen Martensen (1808–1884) was known for many years only as a central figure in Kierkegaard’s attack on the Danish State Church. In the past few decades there has, however, been a renewed appreciation for Martensen as an important thinker in his own right. The present anthology attempts to bring together the works of the leading scholars responsible for this recent surge of interest.
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)heibeRG’s On the Signifi-cance Of PhilOSOPhy fOr the PreSent age anD otheR textsJon Stewart (ed. and trans.)
Kierkegaard was in a critical discussion more often with Danish authors influenced by Hegel, such as Johan Ludvig Heiberg, than with Hegel himself. But many works on the issue in the
secondary literature have presupposed Kierkegaard’s immediate relation to Hegel and neglected the movement of Danish Hegelianism. One of the reasons for this may be the lack of translations of figures like Heiberg. In this volume the English reader will be able to follow a Danish debate about Hegel’s philosophy and judge for him or herself what relation it has to Kierkegaard’s thought.
heibeRG’s SPeculative lOgic anD otheR textsJon Stewart (ed. and trans)
This volume features Johan Ludvig Heiberg’s most extensive treatment of logic, namely, his Outline of the Philosophy of Phi-losophy or Speculative Logic (1832). This work follows closely Hegel’s main statement on the subject, the Science of Logic. Heiberg’s text foreshadows a number of
later Danish discussions about issues related to Hegel’s logic, for example the question of a presuppositionless beginning, mediation, movement in logic, the validity of the law of excluded middle, and finally the relation of philosophy to religion.
heibeRG’s intrOductOry lecture tO the lOgic cOurSe anD otheR textsJon Stewart (ed. and trans.)
This volume features the Introductory Lecture to the Logic Course (1835), which is one of the clearest statements of Heiberg’s Hegelian idealism. Heiberg makes a case for the primacy of philosophy over, for example, religion or the natural sciences by appealing to a theory of categories. In this work Heiberg also treats philosophy of language and aesthetics, and the work contains his appeal to “the demand of the age,” which Kierkegaard satirized in works such as Stages on Life’s Way.
heibeRG’s cOntingency regarded frOm the POint Of view Of lOgic anD otheR textsJon Stewart (ed. and trans.)
This volume features Heiberg’s Contingency Regarded from the Point of View of Logic (1825), which represents a pseudoHegelian account of the categories of contingency and necessity. In “Nemesis: A PopularPhilosophical Investigation,” Heiberg attempts to demonstrate that even though we no longer believe in Nemesis as a goddess who controls our lives, we often make use of the concept of nemesis without knowing it. This volume also includes other philosophical and literary articles, primarily from Heiberg’s journal, Kjøbenhavns flyvende Post.
Texts from Golden Age DenmarkVolume 3This volume features one of Johan Ludvig Heiberg’s very best philosophical works, the Intro ductory Lecture to the Logic Course, which was originally given as a lecture in 1834 and then published in 1835. This work is one of the clearest statements of Heiberg’s Hegelian idealism. Here he makes a case for the primacy of philosophy over, for example, religion or the natural sciences by appealing to a theory of categories. Following Hegel’s model, Heiberg places philosophical knowing higher than religious knowing.
Despite the title of the work, Heiberg is not concerned solely with logic or metaphysics. He also treats, for example, philosophy of language and aesthetics, setting up a cursory taxonomy of forms of poetry. This text further contains his famous appeal to “the demand of the age,” which was so often the object of Kierkegaard’s satire in works such as Prefaces and Stages on Life’s Way.
Jon Stewart is Associate Research Professor at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at The University of Copenhagen
“This third volume of Stewart’s carefully edited translations of J. L. Heiberg’s writings will be required reading for all who do research on nineteenth-century Danish philosophy and especially for those studying Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscript. Here for the first time easily available in English are some of the primary texts, for example, from Heiberg and F.C. Sibbern on philosophy and the logical system and from H.L. Martensen on the importance of doubting everything. The excuses that these essays and reviews are hard to find, or that they are in Danish, will now sound even weaker than they did before. No doubt many Hegel scholars and Kierkegaard scholars will continue to disagree, but, whether they agree or disagree, they will be supporting their views pro and con with citations from this book.”
Andrew BurgessUniversity of New Mexico
Series complete: 978-87-7876-410-2
Cover Painting:P. C. Skovgaard, Forest Lake in the Moonlight (ca. 1837).Reproduced courtesy of the Skovgaard Museum, Viborg.
)mynsteR’s ratiOnaliSm, SuPernaturaliSm anD the Debate about meDiationJon Stewart (ed. and trans.)
G. W. F. Hegel’s philosophy reached Denmark in the mid1820s and resulted in a controversy initiated by the article “Rationalism, Supernaturalism” by the theologian Jakob Peter Mynster. In this article he attacked Hegel’s criticism of the
law of excluded middle. The poet Johan Ludvig Heiberg and the theologian Hans Lassen Martensen then came to Hegel’s defense. The philosopher Frederik Christian Sibbern also took part in the debate, and Kierkegaard’s critical discussions of mediation were significantly influenced by these debates. The present volume includes the main texts in this controversy.
heibeRG’s PerSeuS anD otheR textsJon Stewart (ed. and trans.)
The poet and philosopher Johan Ludvig Heiberg published the first issue of his review Perseus, Journal for the Speculative Idea in 1837 as a part of his campaign to convert his contemporaries to Hegel’s philosophical system. The review was widely read and discussed among Danish stu
dents and intellectuals of the time and it was reviewed by the philosopher F. C. Sibbern and satirized by Søren Kierkegaard in his Prefaces. Heiberg’s Perseus represents a landmark in Golden Age culture.
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