Volume 6, Tome III: Kierkegaard and His German Contemporaries - Literature and Aesthetics

Jon Stewart

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780754662860
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351874427
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

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 into three tomes reflecting Kierkegaard's main areas of interest with regard to the German-speaking sources, namely, philosophy, theology and a more loosely conceived category, which has here been designated "literature and aesthetics." This third tome is dedicated to the German literary sources that were significant for Kierkegaard; in particular the work of authors from German Classicism and Romanticism. Important forerunners for many of Kierkegaard's literary motifs and characters can be found in the German literature of the day. His use of pseudonyms and his interest in irony were both profoundly influenced by German Romanticism. This volume demonstrates the extent to which Kierkegaard's views of criticism and aesthetics were decisively shaped by the work of German authors.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Kierkegaard and His German Contemporaries
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• List of Abbreviations
• Achim von Arnim: Kierkegaard’s Encounters with a Heidelberg Hermit
• Eichendorff: Kierkegaard’s Reception of a German Romantic
• Goethe: A German Classic Through the Filter of the Danish Golden Age
• Hamann: Sharing Style and Thesis: Kierkegaard’s Appropriation of Hamann’s Work
• E.T.A. Hoffmann: A Source for Kierkegaard’s Conceptions of Authorship, Poetic-Artistic Existence, Irony and Humor
• Hotho: A Dialogue on Romantic Irony and the Fascination with Mozart’s Don Giovanni
• Jean Paul: Apparent and Hidden Relations between Kierkegaard and Jean Paul
• Schiller: Kierkegaard’s Use of a Paradoxical Poet
• Friedrich Schlegel: On Ironic Communication, Subjectivity and Selfhood
• Solger: An Apostle of Irony Sacrificed to Hegel’s System
• Tieck: Kierkegaard’s “Guadalquivir” of Open Critique and Hidden Appreciation
• Index of Persons
• Index of Subjects