1st Edition
Volume 8, Tome I: Kierkegaard's International Reception - Northern and Western Europe
Edited By Jon Stewart
Copyright 2009
510 Pages
by
Routledge
510 Pages
by
Routledge
510 Pages
by
Routledge
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Although Kierkegaard's reception was initially more or less limited to Scandinavia, it has for a long time now been a highly international affair. As his writings were translated into different languages his reputation spread, and he became read more and more by people increasingly distant from his native Denmark. While in Scandinavia, the attack on the Church in the last years of his life became... Read more
Contents: Preface; Part I Northern Europe: Denmark: The permanent reception - 150 years of reading Kierkegaard, Steen Tullberg; Norway: 'You have no truth on board!' Kierkegaard's influences on Norway, Thor Arvid Dyrerud; Sweden: Kierkegaard's reception in Swedish philosophy, theology and contemporary literary theory, Jonna Hjertström-Lappalainen and Lars-Erik Hjertström-Lappalainen; Finland: The reception of Kierkegaard in Finland, Janne Kylliäinen; Iceland: 'Neglect and misunderstanding': the reception of Kierkegaard in Iceland, Vilhjálmur Ãrnason. Part II Western Europe: Great Britain: From 'prophet of the now' to postmodern ironist (and after), George Pattison; The Netherlands and Flanders: Kierkegaard's reception in the Dutch-speaking world, Karl Verstrynge; Germany and Austria: A modest head start. The German reception of Kierkegaard, Heiko Schulz; France: Kierkegaard as a forerunner of existentialism and poststructuralism, Jon Stewart; Indexes.
Biography
Jon Stewart is an Associate Research Professor in the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
