1st Edition
Volume 6, Tome III: Kierkegaard and His German Contemporaries - Literature and Aesthetics
Edited By Jon Stewart
Copyright 2008
336 Pages
by
Routledge
334 Pages
by
Routledge
334 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. It can certainly be argued that, apart from his contemporary Danish sources, the German sources were probably the most important in the development of his thought generally. The volume has been divided... Read more
Contents: Achim von Arnim: Kierkegaard's encounters with a Heidelberg hermit, Judith Purver; Eichendorff: Kierkegaard's reception of a German romantic, Judith Purver; Goethe: a German classic through the filter of the Danish Golden Age, Jon Stewart and Katalin Nun; Hamann: sharing style and thesis: Kierkegaard's appropriation of Hamann's work, Sergia Karen Hay; E.T.A. Hoffmann: a source for Kierkegaard's conceptions of authorship, poetic-artistic existence, irony and humor, Judit Bartha; Hotho: a dialogue on romantic irony and the fascination with Mozart's Don Giovanni, Joachim Grage; Jean Paul: apparent and hidden relations between Kierkegaard and Jean Paul, Markus Kleinert; Schiller: Kiekegaard's use of a paradoxical poet, András Nagy; Friedrich Schlegel: on ironic communication, subjectivity and selfhood, K. Brian Söderquist; Solger: an apostle of irony sacrificed to Hegel's system, Jon Stewart; Tieck: Kierkegaard's 'Guadalquivir' of open critique and hidden appreciation, Marcia C. Robinson; Indexes.
Biography
Jon Stewart is Associate Research Professor in the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
