1st Edition

Volume 6, Tome I: Kierkegaard and His German Contemporaries - Philosophy

Edited By Jon Stewart Copyright 2007
400 Pages
by Routledge

398 Pages
by Routledge

402 Pages
by Routledge

This volume explores in detail Kierkegaard's various relations to his German contemporaries. Kierkegaard read German fluently and made extensive use of the writings of German-speaking authors. Apart from his contemporary Danish sources, the German sources were probably the most important in the development of his thought generally. This volume represents source-work research dedicated to tracing... Read more
Contents; Preface; Baader: the centrality of original sin and the difference of immediacy and innocence, Peter Koslowski; Karl Bayer: Kierkgaards's attempt at social philosophy, J. Michael Tilley; Feuerbach: a malicious demon in the service of Christianity, István Czakó; I.H. Fichte: philosophy as the most cheerful form of service to God, Harmut Rosenau; J.G. Fichte: from transcendental ego to existence, David J. Kangas; Hegel: Kierkegaard's reading and use of Hegel's primary texts, Jon Stewart; Herder: a silent background and reservoir, Johannes Adamsen; Kant: a debt both obscure and enormous, Ronald M. Green; Lichtenberg: Lichtenberg's aphoristic thought and Kierkegaard's concept of the 'subjective existing thinker', Smail Rapic; Schelling: a historical introduction to Kierkegaard's Schelling; Tonny Aagaard Olesen; Schopenhauer: Kierkegaard's later encounter with his opposite, Simonella Davini; Schubert: Kierkegaard's reading of Gotthilf Heinrich Schubert's philosophy of nature, Stefan Eganberger; Trendelenberg: an ally against speculation, Darío González; Werder: the influence of Werder's lectures and logik on Kierkegaard's thought, Jon Stewart; Index of persons; Subject index.

Biography

Jon Stewart is Associate Research Professor in the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.