A History of Hegelianism in Golden Age Denmark, Tome II

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 Second Edition

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations



Introduction: The Martensen Period of Danish Hegelianism

 I The Break with the Initial Period

 II Theses of the Present Tome



1 Martensen’s Breakthrough: 1837

 I Martensen’s Review of Heiberg’s Introductory Lecture to the Logic Course

 II Møller’s Article on Immortality

 III Heiberg’s Conflict with the Maanedsskrift for Litteratur

 IV Heiberg’s First Volume of Perseus

  A Heiberg’s “To the Readers”

  B Heiberg’s Review of Rothe

  C Martensen’s Essay on Faust

 V The First Review of Perseus

 VI Martensen’s On the Autonomy of Human Self-Consciousness

 VII Møller’s “Ontology or the System of Categories”

 VIII Martensen’s Lectures, “Speculative Dogmatics” in Winter Semester 1837–38



2 Sibbern’s Critical Response to Heiberg’s Hegelianism: 1838

 I Heiberg’s Speculative Drama, Fata Morgana

 II Martensen’s Review of Fata Morgana

 III Kierkegaard’s The Conflict between the Old and the New Soap-Cellars

 IV Sibbern’s Review of the First Volume of Perseus

  A Sibbern’s Introduction

  B Article I: Sibbern’s Critique of Hegel’s Account of the Beginning of Philosophy

  C Article ii: Sibbern’s Critique of Hegel’s Treatment of the Laws of Logic

  D Article III: Sibbern’s Critique of Hegel’s Triads and Doctrine of the Trinity

  E Article IV: Sibbern’s Critique of Heiberg’s Assessment of Danish Philosophy

  F The Rest of the Review

 V Martensen’s Lectures on Speculative Dogmatics in Summer Semester 1838

 VI Wiborg’s Pseudo-Hegelian Aesthetics

 VII Grundtvig’s Criticism of Hegel in His Lectures, The Memory of Man

 VIII The Second Volume of Heiberg’s Perseus

  A Heiberg’s “The System of Logic”

  B Carl Weis’ “On the Historical Development of the State”

  C Heiberg’s “On Painting in its Relation to the Other Fine Arts”

  D The End of Heiberg’s Perseus

 IX Kierkegaard’s From the Papers of One Still Living

 X A Review of the Second Issue of Heiberg’s Perseus

 XI Martensen’s Lectures, “The History of Modern Philosophy from Kant to Hegel”

 XII Martensen’s Lectures, “Speculative Dogmatics” in Winter Semester 1838–39



3 The Debate about Mediation and the Law of Excluded Middle: 1839

 I J.A. Bornemann’s Review of Martensen’s Dissertation

 II Mynster’s “Rationalism, Supernaturalism”

 III Heiberg’s Response to Mynster

 IV Martensen’s “Rationalism, Supernaturalism and the principium exclusi medii”

 V Schiødte’s “A few Words Concerning the Three so-called Laws of Logic”

 VI The Academic Reading Association

 VII Berg’s Outlines of a Philosophical Propaedeutic or Epistemology

 VIII Monrad’s Flying Political Papers

 IX F.C. Bornemann’s Introductory Lecture on Jurisprudence



4 The Attack on Martensen and His Students’ Hegel Fever: 1840

 I The Controversy Surrounding the Purported Arrogance of Martensen and His Students

  A The Attack on Martensen in Kjøbenhavnsposten

  B Martensen’s Response: “Philosophical Modesty in Kjøbenhavnsposten”

  C The Critic’s Response: “Philosophical Self-Importance in Fædrelandet”

  D The Article “An Attacker of Philosophy”

  E Martensen’s “Statement”

  F “The Final Contribution” from Martensen’s Critic

  G The Rest of the Debate

 II Andersen’s Criticism of Kierkegaard as a Hegelian in A Comedy in the Open Air

 III Nielsen’s Treatise on the Speculative Method’s Treatment of Sacred History

 IV Martensen’s Meister Eckhart

 V Hagen’s Review of Martensen’s Meister Eckhart

 VI Adler’s Dissertation, The Isolated Subjectivity

 VII Adler’s Review of Heiberg’s “The System of Logic”

 VIII Madvig’s A Glance at Constitutions of Antiquity

 IX A Polemic between Sibbern and Heiberg about Hegel’s Political Philosophy

 X The Role of Hegel in the Overviews of Swedish Philosophical Literature in Fædrelandet

 XI The Controversy Surrounding Clausen’s Hermeneutics of the New Testament

  A Clausen’s Criticism of Hegel’s Philosophy

  B Adler’s Response: Professor Clausen’s Judgment of the Hegelian Philosophy

  C Hagen’s Review of Clausen’s Hermeneutics of the New Testament

 XII Molbech’s Philosophy of History



5 Kierkegaard’s Hegelian Master’s Thesis: 1841

 I Heiberg’s New Poems

  A “Divine Service”: A Hegelian Philosophy of Religion

  B “A Soul after Death”: A Hegelian Satire

  C “Protestantism in Nature”

 II Martensen’s Review of Heiberg’s New Poems

 III Tryde’s Review of New Poems

 IV The Pseudo-Grundtvig’s “Open Letter against the German Heretics”

 V A Hegelian Complaint about the Journal for Foreign Theological Literature

 VI The Anonymous Article “Mynster and the Hegelians”

 VII Martensen’s Outline to a System of Moral Philosophy

 VIII Kierkegaard’s Hegelian Philosophy of History: The Concept of Irony

  A Kierkegaard’s Methodological Remarks: The Introduction

  B Kierkegaard’s Account of the Dialectical Method in “The View Made Possible”

  C Hegel’s Account of Socrates’ Daimon in “The Actualization of the View”

  D Hegel’s Account of Socrates vis-à-vis the Sophists and the Other Greek Schools in “The View Made Necessary”

  E Hegel’s Account of Socrates as the Founder of Morality in “Hegel’s View of Socrates”

  F Hegel in the Introduction to Part Two

  G Kierkegaard’s Critique of Hegel’s Account of Socratic Irony in “The World-Historical Validity of Irony”

  H Kierkegaard’s Use of Hegel’s Criticism of Romantic Irony in “Irony after Fichte”

  I Kierkegaard’s Solution: Controlled Irony

  J The Hegelian Nature of the Text

 IX Kattrup’s Translations

 X Parts One and Two of Nielsen’s Speculative Logic

 XI Kierkegaard’s Stay in Berlin

  A Schelling’s Lectures

  B Marheineke’s Lectures

  C Werder’s Lectures

  D Kierkegaard’s Notes on Hegel’s Aesthetics

 XII Brøchner and the Examination Scandal

 XIII 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