A History of Hegelianism in Golden Age Denmark, Tome I

Jon Stewart is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He has worked for many years in the field of nineteenth-century Continental philosophy with a specialization in Hegel and Kierkegaard.

Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations



Introduction: Hegel and Hegelianism

 I Hegel’s Berlin Period: 1818–1831

 II The Development of so-called Right and Left Hegelianism

 III Danish Hegelianism

 IV Thesis and Methodology of the Present Study



1 The Earliest Danish Encounters with Hegel’s Philosophy : Before 1824

 I Baggesen’s Possible Encounter with Hegel in 1794

 II Johan Erik von Berger’s Relation to Hegel from circa 1797

 III Steffens’ Relation to Hegel from 1801

 IV Oehlenschläger’s Encounter with Hegel in Jena in 1806

 V Sibbern’s Journey to Prussia and the German States from 1811–1813

 VI Hans Christian Ørsted’s Encounter with Hegel in 1812

 VII Clausen’s Stay in Berlin: 1818–1819

 VIII Peder Hjort’s Visit to Berlin in 1821

 IX Krarup’s Visit to Berlin: 1821–1822

 X Sibbern’s On Knowledge and Enquiry

 XI Sibbern’s Elements of Logic

 XII The Announcement about Hegel’s Student, Franz Mavros

 XIII Rudelbach’s Visit to Berlin



2 Heiberg and the Howitz Controversy: 1824

 I Heiberg’s Trip to Berlin and His Hegelian Conversion

 II Howitz’s Article “On Madness and Ascribing Responsibility”

 III Anders Sandøe Ørsted’s Response to Howitz

 IV Mynster’s Response to Howitz

 V Sibbern’s Response to Howitz

 VI Howitz’s Response to His Critics: Determinism, or Hume against Kant

 VII Heiberg’s Hegelian Response: On Human Freedom

 VIII The Reception of Heiberg’s On Human Freedom

 IX Heiberg’s Outline of a System of Aesthetics as a Speculative Science

 X Heiberg’s Flight from Kiel



3 Heiberg’s Return to Copenhagen: 1825–1826

 I Heiberg’s Contingency Regarded from the Point of View of Logic

 II Sibbern’s Review of Heiberg’s Treatise on Contingency

 III Poul Martin Møller’s “On the Development of Popular Ideas”

 IV Mynster’s Article on the Law of Identity

 V Heiberg’s Poem “Life and Death”



4 Heiberg’s Initial Attempts to Popularize Philosophy in Kjøbenhavns flyvende Post: 1827

 I Heiberg’s Article, “Confessions of an English Opium Eater”

 II Heiberg’s “On Solger”

 III Heiberg’s “A Letter Found on the Street”

 IV Heiberg’s Nemesis Essay

 V Zeuthen’s Visit to Berlin

 VI Heiberg’s “On the Materialist and Idealist Principle in Language”

 VII Heiberg’s Review of Lucubrations of a Prisoner of the State

 VIII Heiberg’s “A Letter from Baggesen”

 IX Heiberg’s “On Tegnér’s Frithiof”



5 Heiberg’s Attempt to Develop a Hegelian System of Aesthetics in Kjøbenhavns flyvende Post: 1828

 I Heiberg’s Taxonomy of Poetic Forms in His Polemic with Oehlenschläger

 II Peder Hjort’s Response to Heiberg’s Criticism of Oehlenschläger

 III Heiberg’s Taxonomy of Natural Beauty in “On Beauty in Nature”

 IV Kjøbenhavnsposten’s Response to Heiberg’s Criticism of Jacob Baden

 V Heiberg’s Development of Dramatic Character

 VI Kjøbenhavnsposten’s “On Occasion of Flyvende post’s No. 42”

 VII A Brief Article in Kjøbenhavnsposten, “Hegel’s Philosophy”

 VIII Heiberg’s “Cousin’s Visits at Goethe’s”

 IX Heiberg’s Account of the Bad Infinity in “A few Words about the Infinite”



6 Sibbern’s Philosophical Archive and Collection and the Resumption of the Flyvende Post: 1829–1830

 I Peter Christian Kierkegaard’s Stay in Berlin

 II Sibbern’s “On Abstraction and Abstract Analysis”

 III Sibbern’s “On Intellectual Intuition”

 IV Heiberg’s Poetical “Letter to the Magic Lantern Double in Sorø”

 V Heiberg’s Review, “Bretschneider’s Defense of Rationalism”

 VI Lorenzen’s Review of Heise’s Plato Edition

 VII Heiberg’s Discussion of the Correspondence between Goethe and Schiller



7 Heiberg’s Promulgation of Hegelianism at the Royal Military College: 1831–1832

 I Heiberg’s Overview of the Danish belles lettres

 II Zeuthen’s Something about Philosophy and its Cultivation

 III Zeuthen’s for Aesthetics and Philosophy

 IV Hegel’s Death and the Speculation about His Successor

 V Zeuthen’s On the Moral Independence of Man

 VI Heiberg’s Speculative Logic

 VII The Critical Reception of Heiberg’s Speculative Logic



8 The Debate about Heiberg’s On the Significance of Philosophy for the Present Age: 1833

 I Zeuthen’s On the Idea of Modesty

 II The Article “Hegel and Steffens”

 III Heiberg’s On the Significance of Philosophy for the Present Age

 IV Zeuthen’s Elucidations and Heiberg’s Response

 V Mynster’s “On Religious Conviction”

 VI The Review of On the Significance of Philosophy in Kjøbenhavnsposten

 VII Tryde’s Review of On the Significance of Philosophy

 VIII Heiberg’s Response

 IX Tryde’s Rejoinder

 X Møller’s Lectures on the History of Ancient Philosophy

 XI Zeuthen’s Second Journey



9 The Resumption of Heiberg’s Flyvende Post: 1834–1835

 I Heiberg’s “Symbolism”

 II The Satirical Article, “Excerpts from Gumba’s Posthumous Manuscripts”

 III Heiberg’s “Letters to a Village Pastor”

 IV Heiberg’s Introductory Lecture to the Logic Course

 V Møller’s Review of Sibbern’s On Poetry and Art



10 The End of an Era: 1836

 I Møller’s Review of The Extremes

 II Weis’ “Some Remarks on the Philosophy of Law and Positive Law”

 III Peder Hjort’s “From a New Letter from the Provinces”

 IV Kierkegaard and the Satirical Drama: “The Collegium Politicum of the Flyvende Post”

 V Martensen’s Journey Abroad

 VI Heiberg and Martensen in Paris

 VII Sibbern’s Criticism of Hegel’s Account of Socrates

 VIII A Response to Sibbern’s Criticism of Hegel’s Account of Socrates

 IX The Transition to the Next Period of the Hegel Reception in Denmark



Bibliography

 I Secondary Sources on the Danish Hegel Reception

 II Primary Texts and Sources Used

 III Secondary Literature and Material Used



Index of Persons

Subject Index