1st Edition
Volume 7, Tome III: Kierkegaard and His Danish Contemporaries - Literature, Drama and Aesthetics
Edited By Jon Stewart
Copyright 2009
324 Pages
by
Routledge
324 Pages
by
Routledge
324 Pages
by
Routledge
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The period of Kierkegaard's life corresponds to Denmark's "Golden Age," which is conventionally used to refer to the period covering roughly the first half of the nineteenth century, when Denmark's most important writers, philosophers, theologians, poets, actors and artists flourished. Kierkegaard was often in dialogue with his fellow Danes on key issues of the day. His authorship would be... Read more
Contents: Hans Christian Andersen: Andersen was just an excuse, Lone Koldtoft; Jens Baggesen: Kierkegaard and his master's voice, Henrik Blicher; Steen Steensen Blicher: the melancholy poet of the Jutland heath, Sven Hakon Rossel; August Bournonville: leap of faith and the 'noble art of Terpsichore', Nathaniel Kramer; Mathilde Fibiger: Kierkegaard and the emancipation of women, Katalin Nun; Meïr Goldschmidt: the cross-eyed hunchback, Johnny Kondrup; Thomasine Gyllembourg: Kierkegaard's appreciation of the everyday stories and Two Ages, Katalin Nun; Johan Ludvig Heiberg: Kierkegaard's use of Heiberg as a literary critic, George Pattison; Johanne Luise Heiberg: an existential actress, Katalin Nun; Carsten Hauch: a map of mutual misreadings, Poul Houe; Johan Nicolai Madvig: the master of Latin in Kierkegaard's Parnassus, Jesper Eckhardt Larsen; Christian Molbech: proverbs and punctuation: the inspiration of a Danish philologist, Kim Ravn; Peter Ludwig Møller: 'If he had been a somewhat more significant person...', K. Brian Söderquist; Adam Oehlenschläger: Kierkegaard and the treasure hunter of immediacy, Bjarne Troelsen; Joachim Ludvig Phister: the great comic actor of reflection and thoughtfulness, William Banks; Christian Winther: Kierkegaard as lover and reader, Nathaniel Kramer; Indexes.
Biography
Jon Stewart is an Associate Research Professor in the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
